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Selected articles from the Arthur E. Guedel Memorial Center's column in the CSA Bulletin (California Society of Anesthesiologists) Opens new window

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• Volume 55, Number 4 Winter 2007
  "Dr. Chauncey Leake and the Development of Divinyl Oxide from Bench to Bedside" By Matthew J. Mazurek, M.D.


• Volume 55, Number 3 Fall 2006
  "What's Happening at the Guedel? A Refocusing!" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.


• Volume 55, Number 2 Summer 2006
  "Treasures of the Mingun Pagoda" By Merlin Larson, M.D.


• Volume 55, Number 1 Spring 2006
  "The Importance of the Guedel Chart" By Clyde W. Jones, M.D., F.A.C.A.
  "Guedel Contributors for 2005-2006"


• Volume 55, Number 4 Winter 2006
  Arthur E. Guedel Memorial Anesthesia Center "Fifty Years Later"
  By Merlin Larson, M.D.


• Volume 54, Number 3 Fall 2005
  Anesthesia Abroad" By Helen T. O'Keeffe, M.D.


• Volume 54, Number 2 April-June 2005
  The History of the CSA Bulletin" By Gilbert E. Kinyon, M.D., Past Editor, CSA Bulletin


• Volume 54, Number 1 January-March 2005
  C.S.U. 'Over Sixty' Program" By H. Barrie Fairley, M.B., B.S.


• Volume 53, Number 4 October-December 2004
  "A Tribute to Manual Garcia" By Clyde W. Jones, M.D., F.A.C.A.


• Volume 53, Number 3 July-September 2004
  "Guedel Center Update" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D., President, Board of Trustees


• Volume 53, Number 2 April-June 2004
  "And the Nobel Prize Goes To ..." By Merlin D. Larson, M.D., and Matthew D. Cook, M.D.


• Volume 53, Number 1 January-March 2004
  "Iraq Medical Specialty Forum, Baghdad, Iraq: February 14-18, 2004" By Thomas H. Cromwell, M.D., CSA Past President


• Volume 52, Number 4 October-December 2003
  "The History of the Arthur E. Guedel Memorial Anesthesia Center" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D., President of the Guedel Board of Trustees


• Volume 52, Number 3 July-September 2003
  "Richard C. Gill and the Introduction of Curare into Anesthesia Practice" by Merlin Larson, M.D.


• Volume 52, Number 2 April-June 2003
  “What’s Happening in Anesthesia History” By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.


• Volume 52, Number 1, January-March 2003
  One Hundred Years Ago" By Merlin Larson, M.D.


• Volume 51, Number 4, October-December 2002
  History Day" By Merlin Larson, M.D.


• Volume 51, Number 3, July-September 2002
  The Wisconsin-California Connection: Wisconsin Trainees in California" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.


• Volume 51, Number 2, April-June 2002
  75th Anniversary of the Waters’ Department!" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.


• Volume 51, #1January-March 2002
  Waters, Guedel, and the Pre-anesthetic Evaluation" By Merlin Larson, M.D.


• Volume 50, #4 October-December 2001
  The Barbadian Connection" By Clyde W. Jones, M.D., F.A.C.A.


• Volume 50, #3 July-September 2001
  The USS Hornet (CVS-12) Project and the Guedel Library-Museum" By Robert I. Branick, M.D.


• Volume 50, #2 April-June 2001
  The Guedel Memorial Anesthesia Center-British Broadcasting Company Confluence: Return of the Flying Death By Alfredo Pons


• Volume 50, #1January-March 2001
  Summary of San Francisco Bay Area Anesthesia 1946-1950" as remembered By Carl Fisher, M.D., first editor of the CSA Bulletin (then called "The Newsletter")


• Volume 49, #3 May-June 2000
  Dr. John Dillon and the Founding of the UCLA Department of Anesthesiology" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.


• Volume 49, #2 March-April 2000
  Anesthesia Education in Developing Countries" By Stanley Samuels, M.D.


• Volume 49, #1 January-February 2000
  World War II Anesthesia And Surgery: Bataan And Corregidor" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.


• Volume 48, #6 November-December 1999
  The Guedel Center


• Volume 48, #5 September-October 1999"My Career in California" By William Hamilton, M.D.


• Volume 48, #4 July – August 1999
  The Beginnings of Spinal Anesthesia: Contributions by California Investigators" By Merlin D. Larson, M.D.


• Volume 48, #3 May - June 1999
  The First State-wide Anesthesia Meeting in California" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.


• Volume 48, #2 March-April 1999
  Anesthesia in San Diego—A Further Perspective" By John Howard, M.D.


• Volume 48, #1 January-February 1999
  Anesthesiology in California: The Leading Figures in the Early Years" By Selma H. Calmes, M.D.


• Volume 47, #6 November-December 1998
  Anesthesiology in California: The Future—Problems and Possibilities" By Lawrence J. Saidman


• Volume 47, #5 September-October 1998
  Anesthesia in San Diego" By Gilbert E. Kinyon, M.D.


• Volume 47, #3 May - June 1998
  The Founding of The California Society of Anesthesiologists, 1948" By Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.