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HAROLD H. DAVIDSON, M.D.; ROBERT A. HINGSON, M.D.; LOUIS M. HELLMAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1951;62(4):540-547.

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THE FIRST continuous conduction nerve block anesthesia performed through an indwelling catheter was instituted by Eugene Aburel, of Rumania, in the clinic of Professor V. LeLorier and reported to the Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Paris in 1930.¹ Aburel inserted a 14 cm. needle to the left of the vertebral column just anterior to the lumboaortic nerve plexus. Through this needle he introduced a fine elastic silk catheter which remained in place after the withdrawal of the needle. Thus was developed the technic for serial or continuous aortic anesthesia.

In 1935 Love² reported the use of an indwelling ureteral catheter for continuous subarachnoid drainage for meningitis. He introduced a no. 4 or no. 5 French catheter through a 13 gage Barker needle. This technic was next utilized in the United States in 1941 by Manalan,³ of the University of Indiana, for the introduction of an indwelling . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND; BALTIMORE, MD.

From the Department of Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Anesthesiology at the Ninety-Ninth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 30, 1950.

This study was made possible by grants to the obstetrical anesthesia research program of the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital from Abbott Laboratories, Astra Pharmaceutical Products, Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Eli Lilly & Company, Merck & Company, Parke, Davis & Company, Sharp & Dohme, Inc., E. R. Squibb & Sons, Winthrop-Stearns, Inc., and Becton, Dickinson Company.

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