| Abstrakt: |
TO THE EDITOR:— The article "Long-Term Follow-Up of Patients Who Received 10,098 Spinal Anesthetics" in the Dec. 18, 1954, issue of The Journal, page 1486, contains the statement, "Ampules... of epinephrine 1:1,000 were stored in 70% isopropyl alcohol colored with methylene blue," in the description of the technique used by the authors for the administration of the anesthetic. This would indicate that the authors do not autoclave the epinephrine ampul, as was their practice in sterilizing the anesthetic agents that they felt could be autoclaved. Because of this, I thought the following observations might be interesting. During the past 18 months, 1,406 operations were performed on patients under spinal anesthesia, using anesthetic agents that had been autoclaved on the spinal tray as one unit. Two hundred ten of these operations were performed on patients under spinal anesthesia wherein epinephrine 1:1,000 that had been autoclaved on the spinal tray was administered |
