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    August Karl Gustav Bier (24 November 1861 – 12 March 1949) was a German surgeon. He was the first to perform spinal anesthesia and intravenous regional...
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    A bier is a stand on which a corpse, coffin, or casket containing a corpse is placed to lie in state or to be carried to the grave. In Christian burial...
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    Intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) or Bier's block anesthesia is an anesthetic technique on the body's extremities where a local anesthetic is injected...
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  • Bier is a German surname, meaning "beer". Notable people with the surname include: August Bier (1861–1949), German surgeon and pioneer of anesthesiology...
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  • Look up bier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bier is a flat frame used to carry a corpse to burial. Bier or Biers may also refer to: Bier (surname)...
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    Susanne Bier (Danish: [suˈsænə ˈpiɐ̯ˀ]; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. She is best known for her feature films Brothers (2004), After the Wedding...
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    the Twentieth Century, a key Nazi ideological work 1861 1949 Professor August Bier Surgeon and the first to perform spinal anesthesia and intravenous regional...
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    suggestion of Sigmund Freud, in eye surgery in 1884. German surgeon August Bier (1861–1949) was the first to use cocaine for intrathecal anesthesia in...
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    pain therapy. Intravenous regional anesthesia was first described by August Bier in 1908. This technique is still in use and is remarkably safe when drugs...
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    application and removal; and (2) decrease the risk of nerve palsy. In 1908, August Bier used two pneumatic tourniquets with intravenous local anesthesia to anesthetize...
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