TY - JOUR AU - Patvardhan, Chinmay AU - Ferrante, Mario PY - 2018 TI - Opiate free anaesthesia and future of thoracic surgery anaesthesia JF - Journal of Visualized Surgery; Vol 4 (December 2018): Journal of Visualized Surgery Y2 - 2018 KW - N2 - History of development of anaesthesia as a specialty is intricately linked with the use of opiates. The word Anaesthesia derives from the Greek word “ANAIΣΘHΣIA” anaisthēsia, its meaning is: an ‘without’, aisthēsis ‘sensation’, but if we look back, we find that anaesthesia has older origins. It is well known that Sumerian in 4000 BCE already used Opium for pain relief. UR - https://jovs.amegroups.org/article/view/23071