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Stamps in cardiology: Acupuncture anaesthesia for open heart surgery.

Open heart surgery under acupuncture anaesthesia is depicted on this 8 cent Chinese stamp issued in 1975 as part of a set of four stamps to commemorate the successful integration of traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine in the treatment of various diseases. The four Chinese characters at right lower corner of the stamp stand for acupuncture anaesthesia. The other three stamps in the set feature such surgical feats as replantation of severed limbs, application of small soft splints for fractures, and cataract surgery.

The patient in this stamp was a 15 year old girl with congenital ventricular septal defect. The Chinese made disc oxygenator for total cardiopulmonary bypass can be seen on the right. The anaesthetist who performed the acupuncture—two fine needles inserted in both wrists, a further two in the anterior chest wall at both subclavicular areas and also at the patient's head; he was a practitioner of Chinese traditional medicine.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10677398/

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