History of Neuraxial Anaesthesia
History of neuraxial anaesthesia: milestones in spinal and epidural blockade from Koller and Corning to Quincke, Bier, Tuohy and Curbelo.
Category Anaesthesiology
Achille Mario Dogliotti
Achille Mario Dogliotti (1897-1966), Italian surgeon. Pioneer of epidural anaesthesia (Dogliotti’s principle), pain therapy, cardiac surgery, and total extracorporeal blood circulation
Fernand Cathelin
Fernand Cathelin (1873–1960), Paris urologist who pioneered caudal epidural anaesthesia (Cathelin’s method) and designed the urine-divider and air cystoscope.
Théodore Tuffier
Théodore Tuffier (1857–1929): Paris surgeon and innovator; thoracic/cardiac pioneer, early open-chest massage, valve experiments, spinal anaesthesia and Tuffier’s line.
Eugen Aburel
Eugen Bogdan Aburel (1899-1975), Romanian obstetrician and gynaecologist. Pioneer of continuous epidural analgesia, and fertility-sparing cancer surgery
Robert Andrew Hingson
Robert Andrew Hingson (1913-1996), American anesthesiologist, pioneer of continuous epidural analgesia; Hingson Peace Gun; humanitarian mass vaccination programs.
Salvador Gil Vernet
Salvador Gil Vernet (1892-1987), Spanish urologist. pioneer of functional pelvic anatomy, prostate zonal theory, continence mechanisms and anatomy-led urological surgery.
J. Leonard Corning
James Leonard Corning (1855 - 1923) was an American neurologist. Epidural block (1885); Regional anaesthesia (1885)
Edward Tuohy
Edward Boyce Tuohy (1908 – 1959) American anaesthesiologist. Best known for contribution to continuous epidural anaesthesia; Tuohy needle
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.