Tuohy Needle
Tuohy needle: directional neuraxial needle enabling continuous spinal and epidural catheter techniques, based on the original Huber-point design.
Category Equipment
Ralph Huber
Ralph L Huber (1890-1953) was an American Dentist and inventor. Created Huber-point needle (1943, patent 1945) commonly known as TUOHY needle
Alexander Wood
Alexander Wood (1817–1884), Scottish physician; popularised hypodermic morphine injection for neuralgia and helped establish the Wood syringe.
Francis Rynd
Francis Rynd (1801–1861), Irish surgeon who pioneered subcutaneous morphia injection for neuralgia (1844/1845) and described his cannula device in 1861.
Huber-point needle
Hypodermic needle (needle which enters the skin) Originally described in 1946 by Ralph Huber. More commonly known as the Tuohy Needle
Leonardo Gigli
Leonardo Gigli (1863-1908) was an Italian surgeon and gynaecologist. Inventor of the Gigli saw for lateralised pubiotomy
Charles Hudson
Charles Henry Hudson (1903-1962) was an American dentist, inventor and medical entrepreneur. Inventor of the Hudson Mask
Sidney Yankauer
Sidney Yankauer (1872–1932), American ENT surgeon and inventor of the Yankauer suction catheter, pioneer in bronchoscopy and surgical airway care
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer (1836 – 1910) German Surgical instrument manufacturer. His wife Jeanne Amélie Lüer invented the original Lüer syringe in 1895
Oxygen Cylinder
Oxygen Cylinder: Portable supply of supplemental oxygen to maintain aerobic metabolism during patient transport
Ivan Magill
Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill (1888 – 1986) was an Irish Anaesthetist. Epomnymously affiliated with various anaesthetic devices such as the Magill forceps
Godfrey Hounsfield
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919-2004) was an English electrical engineer, Invention of computed tomography and Hounsfield Units (HU)