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You cannot make something work until you understand how it works. Epidural anesthesia has been with us since the turn of the century, but it is only in the last twenty-five years or so that the tools have become available to help us understand and exploit its mechanisms of action. We have come a long way in that time, and the most rapid advances have taken place in the past 5 years.
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Bromage, P.R. (1984). Current Concepts and Perspectives in Epidural Anaesthesia. In: Van Kleef, J.W., Burm, A.G.L., Spierdijk, J. (eds) Current Concepts in Regional Anaesthesia. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6015-2_17
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