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Introduction
Dr. Kathryn McGoldrick: Welcome. I'm Dr. Kathryn McGoldrick. I'm with the AnesthesiaWeb. And in my other life, I'm Professor of Anesthesiology at Yale and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Wood Library. Our distinguished guest this afternoon is Dr. Peter Safar, who founded the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and is chair emeritus now. Dr. Safar is going to be our distinguished Wright Memorial lecturer this year at the American Society of Anesthesiology annual meeting. He has the daunting task of reviewing the wonderful innovations in resuscitation that have occurred during the last millennium. And with that as background, I'd like to ask Dr. Safar what he considers to be the most dramatic advances that have been made in the last 500 years.
