To the lumbar anesthesia. Dr. V. Khazaradze (Nov. Khir. Ark., 1927, No. 52)

The author reviews 1,546 cases of operations performed under spinal anesthesia at the Hospital Surgical Clinic of Tiflis University. The average duration of analgesia in these cases was 1 hour 25 minutes. The age of the patients varied from 15 to 80 years. Operations under spinal anesthesia were performed for diseases localized below the navel, which made up 18.5% of the clinic material.