History of Neuraxial Anaesthesia
History of neuraxial anaesthesia: milestones in spinal and epidural blockade from Koller and Corning to Quincke, Bier, Tuohy and Curbelo.
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August Bier
August Karl Gustav Bier (1861-1949) German Surgeon. Used Esmarch tourniquet forming the basis of his eponymous Bier block regional anaesthesia
Oskar Kreis
Oskar Kreis (1872–1958), Swiss obstetrician who pioneered obstetric spinal analgesia with intrathecal cocaine (1900), enabling forceps delivery and shaping neuraxial practice