title: The origins of endotracheal ventilation.
abstract: Physiologists could keep animals alive with an open chest long before surgeons set about doing the same thing in patients. Why was there not an orderly transfer of knowledge and technique?
authors.affiliation: Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Dobell
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000266:history*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000266:history*