• Reg Anesth Pain Med · Sep 2002

    Biography Historical Article

    Edward Tuohy: the man, his needle, and its place in obstetric analgesia.

    • Joshua A Martini, Douglas R Bacon, and Gary M Vasdev.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
    • Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2002 Sep 1; 27 (5): 520-3.

    AbstractThe introduction of a needle designed by Ralph Huber and Edward Tuohy made continuous epidural anesthesia for labor possible. Neither the needle nor the regional anesthetic technique evolved in a vacuum; both were the culmination of a range of ideas developed by individuals around the world.

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