Trials of electroanesthesia are continuing, but...
'Since 1875, we have been trying to produce a clinically useful electroanesthesia and have met with little success'
One of the largest recent clinical trials of electroanesthesia was reported in Las Vegas during the Third Annual Neuroelectric Conference.
Data accumulated during 250 operations ranging from tonsillectomies to perineal procedures were presented by three anesthesiologists from the Indian Army. However, Brigadier K. R. Rama Rao, MB, BS, and his colleagues were unable to attend in person and their paper was read by Norman L. Wulfsohn, MD, chairman of the meeting's clinical sessions.
According to the Indian physicians, 86.8% of the patients remained quiet, did not display any reflex responses or purposeful movement, could not remember intraoperative events, and otherwise seemed to represent successful uses of this technique.
Another 10% of the operations were termed partial successes because the patients responded to pull, pressures, or sounds,
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