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Archive > December, 2009 Vol. X, No. 12

What Do You Know About Regional Anesthesia?

Test your knowledge of the history, applications and safety of nerve blocks.

Kent Steinriede, Associate Editor

Did you know that regional anesthesia evolved out of the process of garroting, or using a tourniquet to compress the nerve and restrict bloodflow?[1] With the advent of the hypodermic needle in 1853, physicians were able to administer local anesthesia by injecting morphine, then later cocaine and procaine, beneath the skin in order for the drug to reach the nerve.

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