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Intravenous Regional Anesthesia

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Intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) was first described in 1908 by Bier, who used procaine injected intravenously between two forearm tourniquets [1]. Holmes is credited with reintroducing the technique in 1963 [2]. More than 100 years after the original description, with some modifications, Bier’s technique is still used in modern anesthesia practice.

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  1. Department of Anesthesias, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Lindsey Vokach-Brodsky MB, ChB

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  1. University Hosp and Ochsner Kenner Hosp, Prof and Chairman,Dept of Anesthesiology, Director of Interventional Pain Mgmt., Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, 70112, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Harvard Medical School, Director, Proced Sedation Mgmt & Safety, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Med, Boston, 02115, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. Yale University School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, New Haven, 06520, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

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Vokach-Brodsky, L. (2012). Intravenous Regional Anesthesia. In: Kaye, A., Urman, R., Vadivelu, N. (eds) Essentials of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1013-3_22

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