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E W Ahlgren

Publications and source records attributed to E W Ahlgren.

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PubMed1979

Anesthetic considerations in surgery for gastrointestinal disease.

We have attempted to present a brief overview of current considerations in anesthesia for surgery of gastrointestinal disease as practiced at our institution. Many considerations remain unexplored owing to limitations of space. We have deliberately concentrated upon antecedent and concurrent therapy encountered in the treatment of the surgical patient. The potent drugs introduced in the past decade have produced infinite potential for drug interactions--some serious, some not so serious, and some which are desirable. We hope we have generated further reader interest in this mushrooming problem of modern medicine confronting the anesthesiologist and surgeon in the perioperative period.

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PubMed1966

Diagnosis of pain with a graduated spinal block technique.

The differential spinal examination has been used at Duke University Medical Center for approximately 15 years in the evaluation of low-back and lower extremity pain. This is a technique of using increasing concentrations of procaine hydrochloride to block nerves of various sizes and degrees of myelinization. With the ever increasing number of compensation and liability cases, there is a corresponding need for this type of diagnostic and prognostic test. It is an attempt to give the physician an objective estimate of the pain. It must be stressed that this is just another test for diagnostic and prognostic evaluation. However, initial results seem to indicate that much weight can be placed on the findings in an attempt to objectively categorize the pain as being either organic or functional and whether it is medicated by sensory or sympathetic pathways.

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