When was the first tracheal intubation?
In the early 1870’s, Trendelenburg from Germany performed the first endotracheal anesthesia in man. Macewen in 1878 reported the first elective endotracheal intubation for anesthesia. He isolated the trachea by packing the hypopharynx, from leaking of blood and debris. Who invented tracheal intubation? In 1543, Vesalius reported intubating an animal, the first documented case of…