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May support integration of recent anaesthetic advances into perioperative care; leaves open the need for prospective trials to quantify benefits.
More than 150 years ago William Morton successfully used diethyl ether as general anaesthesia. Advances in anaesthesia have made many new surgical techniques possible, and mortality directly attributable to anaesthesia is now rare. Most recent advances have contributed to an important decrease in morbidity from anaesthesia and to an increase in quality of perioperative management.
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