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Study of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide as an Analgesic Agent

Eric C. Kast, Vincent J. Collins

Anesthesia & Analgesia May 1, 1964 DOI: 10.1213/00000539-196405000-00013 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Clinical trial Peer reviewed
Sample size 50
Population Hospital patients
Duration Up to two weeks
Topics LSD
Keywords Anesthesiology Medical school Family medicine Library science Gerontology Medical education
Citations 140
Key findings The new analgesic provides effective pain relief with potentially fewer side effects compared to standard treatments.

Abstract

*Associate Attending, Division of Anesthesiology, Cook County Hospital and Hektoen Institute for Medical Research; Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. †Chairman, Division of Anesthesiology, Cook County Hospital and Hektoen Institute for Medical Research; Associate Professor of Surgery (Anesthesiology), Northwestern University, School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. Supported in part by U.S.P.H. Grant MH-07180. This paper was presented in part at the meeting of the Committee on Drug Addiction and Narcotics, National Research Council in Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 1963. ☆ ERIC C. KAST, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at t h e Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Kast was born in Vienna, Austria. He received his M.D. degree from Loyola University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, in 1944, and interned at Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, from 1944–1945. He served residencies at the University of Chicago Clinics (1945–1947), Permanente Foundation Hospital, Oakland, California (1948–1949), and a residency in psychiatry at Manteno State Hospital. He was a Teaching Fellow at Tufts Medical College from 1947–1948. Dr. Kast is a member of Sigma Xi. ☆ VINCENT J. COLLINS, M.D. is Chairman of the Division of Anesthesiology at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and Associate Professor of Surgery (Anesthesiology) at Northwestern University. He received the M.S. degree from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and his M.D. degree from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Collins is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Medical Association Section on Anesthesiology.

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