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- Title
A pathway for bed-side innovation.
- Authors
Young, P. J.
- Abstract
In the mid-nineteenth century, at the birth of inhalational anaesthesia, many clinicians across the world developed devices to administer ether by combining an understanding of the problem, the clinical environment and by application of the latest science and technological abilities of the time. Macintosh never patented this in the UK and his assistant began selling homemade devices to visitors at the hospital; subsequently multiple companies produced these as popularity spread. Honorary contracts held by clinicians with other Trusts or universities will also have intellectual property clauses and it is likely that intellectual property has been accidently signed to multiple owners, creating the potential for personal liability. The syringe safety device by Williams et al. is an elegant solution to a problem that we have all experienced directly or with near-misses - that is, syringe substitution error.
- Subjects
LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGEAL masks; DRUG overdose; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
- Publication
Anaesthesia, 2019, Vol 74, Issue 11, p1357
- ISSN
0003-2409
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1111/anae.14725