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Letter from Karl A. Connell to Virginia Apgar
- Title:
- Letter from Karl A. Connell to Virginia Apgar
- Creator:
- Connell Apparatus
Connell, Karl A. - Recipient:
- Apgar, Virginia
- Date:
- 9 March 1939
- Description:
- Connell Apparatus manufactured and serviced the anesthesia machines used at Presbyterian Hospital. During Apgar's first years as director of the Anesthesia Division, the hospital grappled with the problem of explosions resulting from accidental ignition of anesthesia gases in the operating room. It was not always clear where the sparks originated in these accidents, and Connell worked with the hospital staff to discover which equipment and materials were causing them. In this letter, Connell described a modification to the equipment and other methods to reduce the risk of sparking from static electricity.
- Original Repository:
- Mount Holyoke College. Archives and Special Collections. Virginia Apgar Papers [MS 0504]
- Location:
- Box: 5. Folder: 4
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of Karl Connell.
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- Anesthesiology
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Virginia Apgar to Karl A. Connell, 1939 Letter from Allen O. Whipple to Virginia Apgar, 1939 Letter from Karl A. Connell to Virginia Apgar, 1939
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Mount Holyoke College. Archives and Special Collections. Virginia Apgar Papers [MS 0504]. 12223
- Legacy ID:
- CPBBFD
- NLM ID:
- 101584647X66
- Profiles Collection:
- The Virginia Apgar Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584647X66
- Story Section:
- Establishing a New Specialty, 1938-1949