Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-01-05 | Page 10 | Stovaine is Used at a Local Hospital with Good Success

Stova ne Is Used at a Local I L Hospital o 1 tal With Good success HE spinal anaesthesia by bythe bythe T THE the use of and which Is used In operations to deaden pain and still leaves the patient conscIous to all that Is going on in the operating room was used In an per performed performed formed upon Andris Natis by Dr John JohnF F Critchlow assisted by Dr L C Cal Calvert Calvert vert Marks hospital Monday Monda night The operation was a success and Tuesday night Natis was reported as being out of danger and well on the way to recovery re recovery covery The anaesthesia with has caused a great deal of comment In Inthe inthe the east on account of the clinics by Dr Thomas of the University of Bucharest who Is the advocate of sto value valne used with The work of Dr was later hater taken up in New NewYork NewYork York and as a result the use of the spinal anaesthesia is being greatly advocated From Information received from the hos hospital pital It was learned that Dr Critch Critchlow lo low had been using the anaesthesia anaesthesia thesia with sInce last April when he received some of the from Dr Babcock of Philadelphia Since he first used the spinal anaesthesia he has had twelve cases where he thought Its use was advisable and In each case the tho operation was a success and no bad after effects were experIenced by the patient t As An far as could be learned Dr Critchlow Critch Critchlow low is the only member of the local medi medical cal fraternity who Is using but since lt it has been used here with success it possible ia that within a hort time Its use will be general According to lO the hospital authorIties does away with many of the themore themore more disagreeable features experienced with the use of ether or chloroform The liquid Is injected Into the spinal column of the patient In the region of the fourth lumbar vertebrae The patient Is then ready for the operation and is unconscious scions to all pain for forty minutes when the effects of the drug pass away In Inthe Inthe the operation upon Nails one of the great advantages of over ether was demonstrated In the ward In which Natis was placed Alongside of Natis was an another another other patient who had been operated upon for appendicitis but who had bad been given an anaesthesia of ether The characteristic char characteristic after effects of intense thirst caused by the ether was experienced by bytho bythe the tho patient but accordIng to usage he was not permitted to have water for hours hourn In the case of Natis he ws ts given a drInk thirty minutes after the operation was corn com completed The patient who had been given the ether witnessed the giving of the water to his fellow patient who had also bO boon n operated upon for appendicitis and complained to the nurse