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  2. Intravenous regional anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) or Bier's block anesthesia is an anesthetic technique on the body's extremities where a local anesthetic is injected intravenously and isolated from circulation in a target area.

  3. August Bier - Wikipedia

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    Intravenous regional anesthesia. In 1908, Bier pioneered the use of intravenous regional anesthesia, [2] [3] a technique which is commonly referred to as a "Bier block". [4] This technique is frequently used for operations of brief duration upon the hand, wrist, and forearm.

  4. Brachial plexus block - Wikipedia

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    Brachial plexus block is a regional anesthesia technique that is sometimes employed as an alternative or as an adjunct to general anesthesia for surgery of the upper extremity. This technique involves the injection of local anesthetic agents in close proximity to the brachial plexus , temporarily blocking the sensation and ability to move the ...

  5. History of neuraxial anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    On August 16, 1898, German surgeon August Bier (1861–1949) performed surgery under spinal anesthesia in Kiel. [12] Following the publication of Bier's experiments in 1899, a controversy developed about whether Bier or Corning performed the first successful spinal anesthetic. [13] [14] There is no doubt that Corning's experiments preceded ...

  6. Anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Anesthesia is a combination of the endpoints (discussed above) that are reached by drugs acting on different but overlapping sites in the central nervous system. General anesthesia (as opposed to sedation or regional anesthesia) has three main goals: lack of movement , unconsciousness, and blunting of the stress response. In the early days of ...

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  8. List of eponymous surgical procedures - Wikipedia

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    Bier's block: August Bier: Anesthesiology: Intravenous regional anesthesia. Usually used for short upper limb surgeries. [1] Billroth's operation I: Theodor Billroth: Upper gastrointestinal surgery: Resection of the pyloric antrum and end-to-end anastomosis of the gastric remnant to the duodenum: Billroth's operation I at Who Named It? Billroth ...

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