J. Leonard Corning
James Leonard Corning (1855 - 1923) was an American neurologist. Epidural block (1885); Regional anaesthesia (1885)
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Tuohy Needle
Tuohy needle: directional neuraxial needle enabling continuous spinal and epidural catheter techniques, based on the original Huber-point design.
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
Edward Tuohy
Edward Boyce Tuohy (1908 – 1959) American anaesthesiologist. Best known for contribution to continuous epidural anaesthesia; Tuohy needle
Serratus Anterior Plane Block
FOAMed serratus anterior plane block (SAPB) education package for ED rib fractures: evidence-based indications, sonoanatomy, procedure and safety.
Rolland J. Whitacre
Rolland John Whitacre (1909–1956), American anesthesiologist and inventor of the pencil-point spinal needle that reduced post-dural puncture headache.
Robert F. Hustead
Robert Frank Hustead (1928-2008), American anaesthesiologist; refined epidural needle design, helped establish obstetric and ophthalmic anaesthesia subspecialties
Oral B. Crawford
Oral Bascom Crawford Jr (1921–2008), American anesthesiologist. Early advocate of thoracic epidural anesthesia, inventor of the Crawford needle, and prilocaine investigator.
Leonid Rogozov
Leonid Rogozov (1934–2000): Soviet surgeon who performed a self-appendicectomy in Antarctica (1961) when evacuation was impossible—an iconic feat of austere medicine.
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.
Evan O’Neill Kane
Evan O’Neill Kane (1864–1932), American country surgeon. Railway accident specialist and medical inventor, famed for his 1921 auto-appendicectomy.