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Opiate use in anesthesia is intricately linked to the specialty's history, dating back to the use of opium for pain relief by Sumerians in 4000 BCE.
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Historical opiate-anaesthesia link cautions against over-reliance; leaves open need for trials of modern non-opioid strategies.
History of development of anaesthesia as a specialty is intricately linked with the use of opiates. The word Anaesthesia derives from the Greek word “ANAIΣΘHΣIA” anaisthēsia, its meaning is: an ‘without’, aisthēsis ‘sensation’, but if we look back, we find that anaesthesia has older origins. It is well known that Sumerian in 4000 BCE already used Opium for pain relief.
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Patvardhan et al. (2018) studied this question. Opiate use in anesthesia is intricately linked to the specialty's history, dating back to the use of opium for pain relief by Sumerians in 4000 BCE.
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