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During the 1930s the Swedish surgeons who travelled abroad to the United Kingdom and the United States came home very impressed by the anaesthetic techniques developed in those countries, where anaesthesiology was already a recognized specialty in medicine. Visiting surgeons from those countries were of the opinion that Swedish surgery was good, but anaesthesia bad. The surgeons gave spinal and regional anaesthesia, and the general anaesthesia was handled by the youngest assistants, nurses or even attendants. The situation was roughly similar all over Europe.
Ralph Waters Award Lecture, Chicago, 7 May 1982
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Gordh, T. (1985). The Influence of Ralph M. Waters on the Development of Anaesthesiology in Sweden. In: Rupreht, J., van Lieburg, M.J., Lee, J.A., Erdmann, W. (eds) Anaesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69636-7_8
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