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Edward Tuohy: the man, his needle, and its place in obstetric analgesia
Joshua A Martini1, Douglas R Bacon, Gary M Vasdev
1Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
|October 10, 2002
Abstract:
The 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.