Ridgway, a pioneer marine mammal veterinarian and neuroscientist with the U.S. Karl Pribram from the Institute of Living (Hartford, Connecticut), and Dr. Hind from the University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin), Dr.
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Jersey Rose, Vernon Mountcastle, and Lawrence Kruger from Johns Hopkins Medical School, plus Drs. Eugene Nagel several world-class neurophysiologists, including Drs. John Lilly, with a background in neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) and a biomedical background from the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) a human anesthesiologist at the University of Miami (Miami, Florida), Dr. Orthello Langworthy at the Johns Hopkins Medical School (Baltimore, Maryland) another physician, Dr. The odyssey to develop dolphin anesthesiology to accomplish mapping of the dolphin’s large brain, plus electrophysiologic study of the dolphin’s very advanced auditory system, involved contributions from a neurology/psychiatry physician, Dr. Also, investigators wanted to develop anesthesia for the dolphin in order to study the electrophysiology of the dolphin’s highly sophisticated auditory system, which facilitates the dolphin’s amazing echolocation capability.ĭolphin anesthesia involves a complex matter of unique neural control, airway anatomy, neuromuscular control of respiration, and sleep behavior. The motivation to anesthetize dolphins came from the fact that scientists and physicians wanted to study the brain of the dolphin, a brain as large as man’s. Dripps’s constructive outlook personified in the quest to develop dolphin anesthesiology. Many human and veterinary anesthesiologists as well as biomedical engineers and neuroscientists benefited from Dr. Robert Dripps, former pioneering Chairman of the Anesthesiology Department at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). It is important for academic-minded human anesthesiologists to have an interdisciplinary perspective when engaging in cutting-edge research as well as the practice of human anesthesiology.