title: [A 100-year-old transatlantic contribution to anesthesiologic quality control].
abstract: Aspects of quality assurance or control in anaesthesia were already discussed at the end of the last century. The reports "Zur Narkotisirungs-Statistik" given by the Berlin surgeon Gurlt between 1891 and 1895 are published examples. Answers in questionnaires and additional comments--mainly from German surgical hospital departments--were the main sources of these reports. However, every year some answers also came from foreign countries. In his fifth report Gurlt published in 1895 the full text of a contribution given by Prince from Chicago, Illinois, USA. That report--given here once again in the original form--allows an insight into the practice of anaesthesia in North America in those days. Many of these statements and recommendations are still relevant; they are now essentials of the so-called "quality assurance" or "quality control".
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie, Medizinische Fakultät, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Röse
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000266:history*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States
vernacular_title: Uber einen 100 Jahre alten transatlantischen Beitrag zur anästhesiologischen Qualitätskontrolle.