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Two surgeons who popularized spinal anesthesia
1Department of Anesthesiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
|May 19, 2001
Abstract:
Because of the significant mortality associated with general anesthesia in the early decades of the 20th century, two US surgeons--George Pitkin and Wayne Babcock--suggested suitable alternatives. Believing in the greater manageability and safety of regional and spinal anesthesia, each investigated these techniques, employing them for surgery and went on to popularize the rational use of regional anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med 2001;26:278-282.