What a gas

Consultant anaesthetist Jake Alderson displays part of his collection of medical devices, which includes a child's iron lung from the 1950s and equipment used in the UK's first heart bypass surgery. Dr Alderson, who works at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, hopes to open the first museum dedicated to anaesthesia.

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