Scientific Programme - 2025-09-16


Tuesday, September 16

Faculté de Médecine - Site des Cordeliers
15 Rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

Programme sept 16-17-18

ACRP Room (ground floor)

Catering - Exhibition

Amphi Frézal (3rd floor)

08h30-08h45 Welcome address : Dominique Simon, Jean-Michel Constantin
08h45-10h15 Chairpersons : Dominique Simon, Wulf Stratling
08h45-09h30 History of WFSA - David Wilkinson
09h30-10h15 Safety in anaesthesia in France - André Lienhart
10h15-10h45 Coffee break
10h45-12h15 Chairpersons : Frédérique Servin, Alistair McKenzie
10h45-11h15 Helmut Schwilden and his contributions to the evolution of model-based anaesthesia - .Jürgen Schüttler
11h15-11h45 Development of EEG analysis as a monitoring tool - Valérie Billard
11h45-12h15 From surgical shock to neuroleptanaesthesia - Frédérique Servin
12h15-14h00 Lunch Break
14h00-15h30 Chairpersons : Valérie Billard, Peter Featherstone
14h00-14h30 Claude Bernard’s input to anaesthesia and intensive care - Jean-Jacques Lehot
14h30-15h00 The centenary of the elucidation of the chemical structure of morphine in 1925 - Alistair McKenzie
15h00-15h30 First ether administrations in France in 1847. - Jean-Bernard Cazalaà, Frédérique Servin
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-17h30 Chairpersons : Jean-Louis Scholtes, Chris Ball
16h00-16h25 Some famous French scientists for the development of anaesthesia - Yvonnick Blanlœil
16h25-16h50 Paul Bert input in anaesthesia - Jacques Hotton
16h50-17h10 How Lyons stood alone in choosing ether over chloroform in France 1849-1895 - Alistair McKenzie
17h10-17h30 Reassessing the Shared History of Modern Anesthesia Apparatus in Britain and Canada - Brenna Connor, Wulf Stratling
17h30-17h50 Moore’s Compressor and Its Imitators : Between a Tourniquet and a Compressor - Jun Parker
17h50-18h00 General discussion

Pavillon 3 (ground floor)

10h45-12h15 Chairpersons : Jacques Hotton, Peter Featherstone
10h45-11h05 Blinded by the benefits : the history of supplemental oxygen use in premature infants - Peter Featherstone
11h05-11h25 A little history on hypothermia, oxygen, barometric pressure - Jan Hofland
11h25-11h45 History of the management of malignant hyperthermia in France - Renée Krivosic Horber
11h45-12h05 Raphael Dubois’s 1884 anesthesia machine - Jean-Bernard Cazalaà, Jacques Hotton
12h05-12h15 General discussion
12h15-14h00 Lunch Break
14h00-15h30 Chairpersons : Dominique Simon, Jun Parker
14h00-14h20 Remembering a painful loss : The Jewish Medical Community in Berlin before the Shoah, Dr. Ernst Silberstein (Silten) (1866-1943) - Wulf Stratling
14h20-14h40 Dr Gwen Wilson (1916-1998) - Jane McDonald
14h40-15h00 Reflections from the past : A historical audit of the Alfred Hospital First Operating Theatre Archive (1884 - 1888) - Natalie Apelbaum, Genna Verbeek
15h00-15h20 Peter Safar : His Fundamental Contributions to Resuscitation and Prehospital Care - Deborah Roy
15h20-15h30 General discussion
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-17h30 Chairpersons : Hiroshi Makino, Louis-Jean Dupré
16h00-16h20 Moore’s Compressor and Japan : the conceptual birth of loco-regional anaesthesia in pre-Meiji Japan Jun Parker
16h20-16h40 Did French Doctors Active During Japan’s Rapid Westernization Perform Anesthesia - Hiroshi Makino
16h40-17h00 Anaesthesia, anthropology and colonialism in the Pacific - Michael Cooper, Pauline Wake
17h00-17h20 Anaesthesia intersecting with the men and women of evolution and literature - Michael Cooper
17h20-17h30 General discussion

Scientific Programme - 2025-09-17


Wednesday, September 17

Faculté de Médecine - Site des Cordeliers
15 Rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

Pavillon 4 (ground floor)

08h30-10h00 Chairpersons : Francis Bonnet, Louis-Jean Dupré
08h30-09h00 Evolution of spinal anaesthesia from 1980 to 2025 - Francis Bonnet
09h00-09h30 Paul Reclus (1847-1914) : The basics of infiltration anaesthesia are still relevant after more than a century - Marc Gentili
09h30-10h00 From tactile sensation to ultrasounds : history of the identification of the epidural space - Louis-Jean Dupré
10h00-10h30 Coffee break
10h30-12h00 Chairpersons : Dominique Simon, Alistair McKenzie
10h30-11h15 Contributions of American and English scientists to transfusion and critical care - Yvonnick Blanlœil
11h15-12h00 Development of closed loop control in anaesthesia - Luc Barvais
12h00-12k15 General discussion
12h15-14h00 Lunch Break

Pavillon 3 (ground floor)

08h30-10h00 Chairpersons : Jean-Louis Scholtes, Wulf Stratling
08h30-08h50 An Ermold inhaler ) Bruno De Turck
08h50-09h10 Ombrédanne’s inhaler availability on the French antiquarian market - Jacques Hotton
09h10-09h30 The Wohlgemuth apparatus. Wulf Stratling
09h30-09h50 The history of the rotameter part 1 Re-appraising early beginnings in France Germany and central Europe - Wulf Stratling
09h50-10h00 General discussion

Scientific Programme - 2025-09-18


Thursday, September 18

Congrès de la SFAR
2 Place de la Porte Maillot 75017 Paris

Salle 315 (3rd floor)

08h30-10h00 Chairpersons : Wulf Stratling, Marc Gentili
08h30-08h50 History of Anesthesia and Professional Identity Formation of Medical Trainees - Anuj Aggarwal
08h50-09h10 Teaching Tomorrow’s Doctors with Yesterday’s Anesthetic - Melissa Coleman
09h10-09h30 Development of a Medical Student Anesthesia History Clerkship - Wendy N’Guyen
09h30-09h50 What Have We Learned ? A Survey of Anesthesiology’s Contributions to Patient Safety Literature - Andrea Vannucci
09h50-10h00 General discussion
10h00-10h30 Coffee Break
10h30-12h00 Chairpersons : Isabelle Constant, Frédérique Servin
10h00-11h00 Pharmacognosy in Paris, the prompt to pancuronium - Alistair McKenzie
11h30-11h30 Pupil diameter and pupil dilatation reflex : a long (too long) way from physiologists to physicians - Valérie Billard, Isabelle Constant
11h30-11h50 A biography of Carl Ludwig Schleich - Jacques Hotton
11h50-12h00 General discussion
12h00-14h00 Lunch break
ISHA Young Anaesthesist Prize
14h00-15h30 Chairpersons : Jacques Hotton, Michael Cooper
14h00-14h20 Management of Traumatic Shock During World War I : An Early Example of Translational Medicine ? - Nicolas Ducrocq
14h20-14h40 World War I (1914-1918) - Developing the practice of blood transfusion and blood banks - Wulf Stratling
14h40-15h00 World War I (1914-1918) reconstructive surgery : its interactions with anaesthesia and the narratives concerning Harold Delf Gillies (1882 1960) - Wulf Stratling
15h00-15h20 What would J Alfred Lee have thought of Nurse Anaesthetists ? Andrew Walpole
15h20-15h30 General discussion
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-17h30 Chairpersons : Dominique Simon, Hiroshi Makino
16h00-16h20 The McKesson Respir-aid Rocking Bed - Peter Featherstone
16h20-16h40 From Mesmerism to the First Anesthetic in Latin America. Alberto de Armendi
16h40-17h00 Evolution of infusion solutions and their containers - Jean-Bernard Cazalaà, Dominique Simon
17h00-17h20 History of the Port-a-Cath… the Frigidaire of central venous access ? - Eric Desruennes
17h20-17h30 General discussion

Salle 352A (3rd floor)

08h30-10h00 Chairpersons : Chris Ball, Jean-Louis Scholte
08h30-08h50 History Repeats Itself : Sister Anaesthetists Anaesthesia Associates and the Lessons We Risk Forgetting - Basel Obeidat
08h50-09h10 The Vernon-Harcourt’s chloroform inhaler. Jacques Hotton
09h10-09h30 James Carrick Moore and the Origins of Brachial Plexus Anaesthesia : A Forgotten Legacy of Moore’s Compressor in the 18th Century - Jun Parker
09h30-09h50 Nutmeg : How a Simple Spice Altered Minds and Fueled Colonialism - Kaitlyn Kulesus
09h50-10h00 General discussion
10h00-10h30 Coffee Break
10h30-12h00 Chairpersons : Barry Baker, Jean-Pierre Haberer
10h30-11h10 123 years of innovation in anaesthesia : How incidents and clinical experience shaped the development of "modern" technology - a shared heritage of transdisciplinary and international cooperation - Wulf Stratling
11h10-11h35 Børjn Ibsen, the anaesthetist who invented modern intensive care in 1952 - Olivier Collange
11h35-12h0 Paul Janssen - Luc Barvais
12h00-14h00 Lunch break
ISHA Young Anaesthesist Prize
14h00-15h30 Chairpersons : Jean-Pierre Haberer, David Wilkinson
14h00-14h20 Is the Search Complete ? Methodology for High-Yield Historical Biomedical Database searches - Melissa Coleman
14h20-14h40 Anaesthesia as a means to an artistic end ? About an action art project at the art exhibition in Kassel, Germany, in 1972 - Wilfried Witte
14h40-15h00 A retrospective bibliometric analysis of te evidence supporting practice in anaesthesia - Jane O’Donnell
15h00-15h20 From Witches to Wearables : The Journey of Scopolamine in Nausea and Anesthesia - Anuj Aggarwal
15h20-15h30 General discussion
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
16h00-18h00 Chairpersons : Barry Baker, Michael Cooper
16h00-16h20 Pain, Progress, and Practice : A Historical Review of Anesthesia in Canada. Wesley Rajaleelan
16h20-16h40 Dr Mark Lidwill and ether impurities in 1915 - Barry Baker
16h40-17h00 From Sumerian’s Grass of joy to today’s opioid free anesthesia. Anne Deneuve
17h00-17h40 “Backstage contributions” of marketing and manufacture to (e)marging anaesthesia and inhalation therapy – an ontold history of an internationally influential network : Drager-Silberstein, Inhabad and Foregger. Wulf Stratling
17h40-18h00 General discussion

Amphi Bleu (2°étage)

12h00-14h00 Lunch Break
ISHA Young Anaesthesist Prize
14h00-16h00 Chairpersons : Sébastien Bauquier
14h00-15h00 Veterinary and medical research in Liverpool - Eddie Cluton, Jennifer Hunter.
15h00-16h00 Anesthesia and analgesia in wartime Jérôme Arnauld des Lions - Pierre Pasquier
16h00-16h30 Coffee break
16h30-18h30 Chairpersons : Delphine Holopherne
16h30-17h30 Changes in analgesia practice over a career - Kursheed Mama, Frédéric Aubrun
17h30-18h30 Is Laboratory Animal Anesthesia Still Prehistory - Eddie Cluton, Chris Ball

SFAR cocktail reception

18h30 - (2°étage stand SFAR)


Programme sept 16-17-18

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