Month 1September 8th Grade

ProjectBy Boudrieau, E

9-28-13

Anesthesia

Deciding an idea

I knew from the start that the 8th grade project would not be a breeze to go through. Everybody in my class is choosing to do something ordinary. I knew nobody would have the same mind set as me, so I chose a difficult experiment, Anesthesia.

Interesting things I learned this month about Anesthesia

Anesthesia has 3 main types: general, local and regional.

General is when you put the whole body to sleep. (preferably before surgery)

Local is in a small part of your body like your gums.

Regional is anesthesia that can numb a limb of your body or an area on your body.

Finding a Mentor The hardest part of my experiment

with anesthesia this month is finding a mentor. I had a few choices…

Dr. Replogle This man was my first choice to be

my mentor. His busy schedule could not fit in with

the requirements of my project so he could not participate.

Dr. Barry After I heard that Doctor Replogle

could not be my mentor I was nearly out of time to have my mentor agreement signed.

I arrived at one of my mothers old neurologist’s hospital and a man told me too call admin to find a mentor.

Dr. Barry picked up and said he would be willing to be my mentor.

More facts on Anesthesia In 1298 the first use of opium and

mandragoro used to help pain of surgery. A Boston dentist uses anesthesia to help

the pain of an ulcerated tooth in 1846. In 1846 ether anesthesia is administered

in Paris, France. In 1860, Albert Niemann purifies cocaine.

(a form of anesthesia that is highly addictive)

Cocaine was later not used for anesthesia.

The FutureI know that anesthesia is a very complicated process.

I will continue to learn the wonders of anesthesia and interview my mentor once a month. I will ask him what it is like to be an anesthesiologist and what it is like to handle anesthesia. Dr. Barry will be interviewed through the phone for 10 minutes. I would like to know what is inside anesthesia. I’m hopefully going to be able to do one experiment (in a hospital) that includes putting a small bug to sleep. I will need to study how much anesthesia is needed to put a human under anesthesia and create ratios to a bug. I will record the footage on tape and show it through a computer because it is unsafe to have at a school. In the future, I will study even more websites than before and find a book on anesthesia. Anesthesia is not a very popular type of book though.

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Replogle, Scott. "Anesthesia." Interview. n.d.: n. pag. Print.

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