Pacific and Beyond Session and Real World Anaesthesia Workshop
Already heard about BIS and POISE? Come to the Pacific and Beyond session on Monday 3 May at the ANZCA ASM. Workshop is an introduction to working in developing 
countries and resource-poor environments.
Neolithic surgeons are thought to have been capable of amputations in "relatively aseptic conditions" about 6900 years ago and to have used the hallucinogenic effects from the toxic datura plant as an anaesthetic, as quoted in the journal, Antiquity.