ANALGESIA AND ANÆSTHESIA IN OBSTETRICS: PENTOTHAL SODIUM, CYCLOPROPANE AND VINYL ETHER *

Intravenous Anæsthesia with Pentothal Sodium

Cyclopropane Anæsthesia

TLHIS paper is based on my experience of one thousand cases of cyclopropane anaesthesia personally conducted by me since October, 1938, both in hospital and in private. But before discussing these it might be convenient for me to mention here something about the drug itself. HISTORY. Cyclopropane was first isolated in Germany in 1882 by Freund, who also demonstrated its chemical structure, C 3H...

Continuous spinal anesthesia and analgesia in obstetrics.

The development of the technique of continuous spinal anesthesia as it relates to the obstetric population is recounted. The advantages and disadvantages of continuous spinal anesthesia are examined, currently available catheters and kits are reviewed, and strategies for the management of continuous spinal techniques for labor analgesia and surgical anesthesia are discussed. Continuous spinal a...

Analgesia and anaesthesia in modern obstetrics.

'Quot homines, tot sententiae.' Many speakers are discussing the relief of pain in midwifery; each has his own hobby-horse. Such a state of affairs proclaims the inescapable fact that, so far, we have failed to make childbirth safely painless. Yet definite progress has been made. There are many ways in which the problem may be tackled; there is a wide variety of drugs available, many of which a...

Extra-dural analgesia in obstetrics and gynaecology.

There are many advantages to be derived from the use of extra-dural block in obstetrics and gynaecology. In the past many anaesthetists have been reluctant to make use of the method owing to the difficulty in accurately locating the extra-dural space, but with advances in technique this has been overcome and there has been a great increase in the use of this form of analgesia in recent years. O...