Anaesthesia and intensive care
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Objective assessment of the results of surgical sympathectomy and sympathetic block (both temporary and permanent) are not widely practised. This article comments briefly on the available methods, and describes the use of the abolition of the skin potential response (formerly known as the psychogalvanic reflex) to assess the abolition of sympathetic function. This method of assessment has proved useful in clinical practice.
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Nov 1979
Snake bite in Australia--the problems involved and a protocol for hospital management.
Despite a great deal of original research into Australian snakes and their complex venoms, there is still confusion about the correct first-aid and hospital management of the bitten patient. This review illustrates the difficulties in diagnosis and treatment and presents a well tried protocol for the successful management of snake bite.
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Aug 1979
Historical ArticleAn ether anaesthesia at Stroud in 1847--a report in search of a date.
About the middle of 1847, Doctor Buchanan of the Australian Agricultural Company ligated a popliteal aneurysm under ether anaesthesia at Stroud, N. S. W. This paper summarises the results of a search for matters related to what must have been one of the first anaesthetics given in Australia.