SPINAL ANALGESIA

Spinal Analgesia

cause was obvious. I failed to get the C. S. fluid to run out rapidly. It came out in very slow drops. I ought to have made a fresh puncture, but wished to try if it were possible to get analgesia under such conditions. Case 17 might be regarded as a failure, but in this case the man confessed next day he never felt any pain, and made a fuss merely because he had not got "gas" to inhale and dre...

Spinal Analgesia

Planocaine in Spinal Analgesia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?In reply to Mr. Surti's letter in the February issue of the Indian Medical Gazette, we have to say that we have used one per cent planocaine solution for spinal analgesia for the last two years for all operations, both major and minor, with such good results that in not a single instance has there been a failure in anaesthesia. Regarding the use of...

Planocaine in Spinal Analgesia

Observations on Spinal Analgesia

on account of the many accidents that occurred, and latterly tropocaine, stovaine, alypin and novocaine have been most in favour. Of these four, tropocaine and stovaine have been most generally used; tropocaine has been employed in some hundreds of cases in Germany, whilst stovaine has also been widely used?particularly by Barker of University College Hospital. I have used stovaine in fifteen c...