Surgery & Medical Devices · Recorded milestone
Intravenous anaesthesia
Recorded year1934
John Lundy and Ralph Waters introduce thiopental, putting patients to sleep in seconds by injection instead of a mask.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.