Modern anaesthesia (local, spinal and intravenous)
Anestesia moderna (local, raquídea e intravenosa)
- Date
- 1884–1934 · confidence medium
- Place
- Vienna, Austria
- Credited to
- Carl Koller (local cocaine, Vienna, 1884); August Bier (spinal, Kiel, 1898); Alfred Einhorn (procaine, 1905); John Lundy (thiopental, Mayo Clinic, 1934); endotracheal intubation (Magill, 1920)
- People
- 👤 Alfred Einhorn1856–1917👤 August Bier1861–1949👤 Carl Koller1857–1944👤 John Silas Lundy1894–1973
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Set of techniques that replaced inhaled ether and chloroform: local and regional anaesthesia and intravenous induction with barbiturates. They made surgery safe and specialised.
What it led to
- Anaesthesiology as a medical specialty
- Major, thoracic and neurosurgery
- Painless dentistry
Built on
- Coca-leaf chewing with limec. 6000 BCE
- Curarebefore 1516
- Hypodermic syringe1853
- Ether anaesthesia (1846)
- Alkaloid chemistry