Passing through old pages... Selected facts about development of world anesthesiology

Abstract

The study is dedicated to Romanian school history of regional anesthesia. The author describes several interesting historical facts that were valuable for successful developing of methods of regional anesthesia at the beginning of XX century in Romania and Europe in general. An outstanding Romanian surgeon Tome Ionnesko made a great contribution in popularizing and developing new methods of anesthesia and applyed them widely in his own surgical practice.

Keywords

history of regional anesthesia / spinal anesthesia

References

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