Local Anesthesia. Dr. Arthur Sehlesinger (Berlin)

Dr. Arthur L. Burnett: surgical treatment for penile cancer

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. The 2016 Huaxia Medical Forum—Genitourinary Tumor & The 2016 Great wall International Translational Andrology and Urology Forum (GUT-HMF 2016 & GITAU 2016) was held at the Tianjin Convention Center in Tianjin, China from April 15–17, 2016. We are honored to invite Dr. Arthur L. Burnett for an interview after his speec...

Dr Arthur Conan Doyle: the first portfolio GP?

Many readers instantly associate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with his literary genius in creating the fictional detective duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Yet, delving more deeply, he practised as an apothecary and GP in Portsmouth and Plymouth, over a century ago (1882–1890). Around this time, he penned three short stories, Crabbe’s Practice1 (1884), Round the Red Lamp2 (1894), and The Stark Munr...

The 'baby Brown' case and the Dr Arthur verdict.

SIR There is cause for concern in the different outcomes of the trials in the cases of baby Brown's parents and Dr Leonard Arthur respectively. Mr Brown was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to five years imprisonment amid public opprobium for supposedly killing his 'mongol infant' (the euphemism is clumsy!), in drunken disappointment; whereas, Dr Arthur was acquitted amid almost unive...

Local anesthesia toxicity review.

Are Local Anesthetics Needed for Local Anesthesia?

THIS issue of the Journal contains a very exciting clinical report that describes the clinical efficacy of epidural sufentanil and neostigmine in laboring women. The authors examined the analgesic effects of different combinations of the two drugs without local anesthetic during the first stage of oxytocin-augmented labor. They found that a mixture of 10 g of sufentanil with 500 g of neostigmin...