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World Anaesthesia Day is celebrated on October 16 to mark the first successful demonstration of diethyl ether anaesthesia in 1846. Share the importance of the day with the best messages, quotes, status captions and more.
World Anesthesia Day or National Anaesthesia Day is celebrated on October 16 to mark the first successful demonstration of diethyl ether anaesthesia in 1846. It is considered as one of the most significant events in the history of medicine and was given in an operating theatre at the Massachusetts General Hospital. This discovery helped the patients to undergo surgical treatments without any pain associated with them.
World Anaesthesia Day: Date
- 2024: 16 October, 2024 [Wednesday]
- 2025: 16 October, 2025 [Thursday]
- 2026: 16 October, 2026 [Friday]
- 2027: 16 October, 2027 [Saturday]
Since 1903, special events have been organized to celebrate this remarkable day. The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists celebrates World Anaesthesia Day every year. In this event more than 134 societies representing anesthesiologists from more than 150 countries take part.
Anesthesia is a department of medicine and is divided into 4 categories:
- General anaesthesia
- Regional anaesthesia
- Monitored anaesthesia care
- Local anaesthesia
History:
World Anaesthesia Day was declared by World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). In 1846, in remembrance of W.T.G. Morton, who made the first successful official demonstration of ether as an anaesthetic on October 16. Every year, the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) focuses on a different facet of anaesthetic treatment, and related events are held all around the world.
Theme:
- 2024: Workforce Wellbeing
- 2023: Anaesthesia and Cancer Care
- 2022: Medication Safety
- 2021: Teamwork
- 2020: Occupational Wellbeing of Anaesthesiologists
- 2019: Resuscitation
World Anesthesia Day: Wishes
- Can’t imagine what it might have felt to undergo surgery before 18th October 1846. Glad to be able to celebrate World Anesthesia Day today!
- Here’s to appreciating the work of Anesthesiologists. Happy World Anesthesia Day!
- Surgeries have become so much easier thanks to the practice of administering anaesthesia. Happy World Anesthesia Day!
- Anaesthetists are responsible for the preoperative care of the patients. Cheers to them and wish them all a very happy World Anesthesia Day!
- All a patient does during an operation is sleep and this is because of the use of Anesthesia. Happy World Anesthesia Day!
- Needles sewing up the cracked head feels way more painful than it sounds but thanks to anaesthetists, we don’t have to feel it. Happy World Anesthesia Day!
- This day reminds us to appreciate the toil of the doctors who had successfully demonstrated ether amnesia. Happy World Anesthesia Day!
- Cheers to the doctors who administer anaesthesia to the patients and make it a point that the patient does not feel the pain. Happy World Anesthesia Day!
- The eighteenth of October commemorates a milestone in the history of medical sciences. Happy World Anesthesia Day!
- This 18th October, let us acknowledge the greatness of anaesthesia. Happy World Anesthesia Day!
World Anesthesia Day: Quotes
- “Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It’s lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.” ~ Michael Keaton
I’m a big believer in anaesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, including routine physicals.” ~ Anonymous - ” It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anaesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain. ” ~ Anonymous
- “To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anaesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “The state should, I think, be called ‘anaesthesia.’ This signifies insensibility.” ~ William Thomas Green Morton
- “Anesthesiologists are like magicians, they make you disappear and reappear in a completely different state of mind.” ~ Unknown
- “She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows!
Then SHe went and left him restlessly numb. He was her
painkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.”! Self - “We all find means of anesthesia.” ~ Brunonia Barry
- “Anesthesia is like a first date, you just have to trust that it will all work out.” ~ Unknown
- “Politics is the art of anesthesia.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
