What you see in my hand is 2 milliliters (2 ml). If someone were to offer you 2 ml to drink, you would probably scorn at it. I mean, even the smallest glass of a soft drink beverage you would accept is probably around 100 ml, right? With two ml of anything, there is not much you can do, right? For me, this 2 ml is life saving.
2 ml of a drug is all I need while giving spinal anaesthesia to make you absolutely pain free during a Caesarean section. To help you smile as you deliver your baby. To be pain free after a broken leg and actually be able to play games on your mobile as the surgeon operates on you as I spoke about earlier. That is the magic of spinal anaesthesia, a procedure that was first done only in 1898, more than 2400 years after surgeries were first done. 2400 years of horrifyingly painful procedures without anaesthesia across the globe when all that was needed was 2 ml…
