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...doctors have reported about 1,000 cases of childbirth with continuous caudal anesthesia (TIME, Feb. 1) without loss of a single mother from the anesthetic. Its advantages: it cuts off pain sensations, without impairing a mother's ability to help the childbirth process; it usually shortens delivery time; it does not drug the child. But few medicos besides Drs. R. A. Hingson and W. B. Edwards, who developed the technique, feel absolutely sure of themselves when using...
...drops a minute. To determine whether the injecting tube is in the right space, they make a test flow with a harmless salt solution. If the flow is slow, they confidently go ahead with the anesthetic. If the flow is over 150 a minute, they try another anesthesia...
...country is not going to be any better than our school system. . . . We cannot afford an ill-educated electorate . . . the movies, the radio, the press, and the advertisements . . . play up and down on the child's nerves . . . apply to him that most insidious of regimentations, mass anesthesia. Against this deadly passivity, our schools are the only bulwark...
...proved safe-it has now been tried in nearly 600 cases with no maternal deaths and only three infant deaths "without reference to the method of analgesia . . . employed." Cases include the wives of Drs. Waldo Edwards and Robert Hingson, who perfected the method. They deny that continuous caudal anesthesia is any more dangerous than spinal anesthesia-both injections must be done by experts. In the A.M.A. Journal two Chicago doctors reported that caudal anesthesia slowed up delivery in their 20 cases because the patient "has absolutely no urge to bear down." But Drs. Edwards and Hingson believe it speeded labor...
Even if caudal anesthesia is actually the answer to an obstetrician's prayer, the recent rash of publicity may prove harmful. Prospective mothers may demand it before doctors learn the technique...