Oskar Kreis: Obstetric anaesthesia 100 years ago

Citation
Mc. Schneider et W. Holzgreve, Oskar Kreis: Obstetric anaesthesia 100 years ago, ANAESTHESIS, 50(7), 2001, pp. 525-528
Citations number
14
Language
TEDESCO
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Aneshtesia & Intensive Care
Journal title
ANAESTHESIST
ISSN journal
0003-2417 → ACNP
Volume
50
Issue
7
Year of publication
2001
Pages
525 - 528
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-2417(200107)50:7<525:OKOA1Y>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
In 1900, Oskar Kreis (1872-1958), a gynecologist and obstetrician who recei ved his training at the Basle University Women's Hospital, pioneered the us e of spinal anaesthesia in six parturients for labour pain relief. Cocaine was used as a local anaesthetic, which had previously been shown to be effe ctive for spinal anaesthesia by August Bier in 1898,This important advance in anaesthetic care was not widely acknowledged for a long period of time a nd it has only been during the past few decades that spinal anaesthesia was rediscovered as an important technique available for obstetric anaesthesia .