The first use of continuous caudal anaesthesia in a labouring woman was in 1942.
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In 1941, Robert Andrew Hingson ( 19131996 ) and Waldo B . Edwards developed the technique of continuous caudal anaesthesia using an indwelling needle.
परिभाषा
regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the caudal end of the spinal canal; now largely replaced by epidural anesthesia पर्याय: caudal anesthesia, caudal block,