# 1960s MEDICAL INSTRUCTIONAL FILM DELIVERY OF TRIPLETS w/ LOW SPINAL ANESTHESIA 51194

Made in the 1950s (or possibly the late 1940s) by Ciba Pharmaceutical Products with the co-operation of the U.S. Air Force and the University of Chicago Medical Center, this film shows the use of Nupercaine (a form of dibucaine) spinal anesthetic in the vaginal delivery of triplets. At the time this type of spinal anesthesia (now commonplace) was fairly new. The first use of similar continuous caudal anesthesia in a laboring woman was on January 6, 1942, when the wife of a United States Coast Guard sailor was brought into the Marine Hospital for an emergency Caesarean section. Because the woman suffered from rheumatic heart disease (heart failure following an episode of rheumatic fever during childhood), her doctors believed that she would not survive the stress of labor but they also felt that she would not tolerate general anesthesia due to her heart failure. With the use of continuous caudal anesthesia, the woman and her baby survived. The first described placement of a lumbar epidural catheter was performed by Pío Manuel María Martínez Curbelo (5 June 1906–1 May 1962) on January 13, 1947. The film begins with a picture of normal childbirth. At mark 1:15 , is a picture of the internal organs involved in pregnancy stage for a mother carrying triplets. The sensory nerves, the uterus are talked about at mark 1:40 . At mark 2:00 , is a picture of the anesthetic involvement. At mark 2:44 is the spine. Spinal needle s are seen at mark 2:58 . Spinal puncture is seen at mark…

- Kind: Educational
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/51194DeliveryOfTriplets)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
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