From Victor Pauchet to Gaston Labat: The transformation of regional anesthesia from a surgeon's practice to the physician anesthesiologist

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1193-1200

  Côté, Annie V ^a   Vachon, Claude A ^a   Horlocker, Terese T ^a   Bacon, Douglas R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BOOK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SURGEON;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BOOKS, ILLUSTRATED; FRANCE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; SEYCHELLES; TEXTBOOKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037379259     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (9)

1. Bacon DR, Reddy V, Murphy OT. Regional anesthesia and chronic pain management in the 1920s and 1930s: the influence of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia. Reg Anesth 1995; 20:185-92.
2. Labat G. Regional anesthesia: its technique and clinical application. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1922.
3. Brown DL, Winnie AP. Biography of Louis Gaston Labat, MD. Reg Anesth 1992;17:249-62.
4. Pauchet V, Sourdat P, Labat G. L'Anesthésie régionale. Paris: Librairie Octave Doin, 1921.
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6. Anonymous. Advertisement. Current researches in anesthesia and analgesia. 1925;4:xiii.
7. Labat's and Pauchet's books fell under the international copyright laws referred to as the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, first promulgated in 1886/1887. The first revision occurred in Berlin in 1908 and would be the act that governed these two books. The 1908 revision extended the copyright to the life of the author plus 50 yr. The United States was not a signatory to this convention until the 1950s and, therefore, Pauchet's book was not automatically copyrighted in the Unites States as it was in other signatory nations of the Berne Convention. History of copyright: a chronology, http://www.musicjournal.org/01copyright. html and copyright, http:// www.bartleby.com/65/c0/opyrigh.html, both accessed November 1, 2001.
8. The chapter contents were examined as to the blocks described in both texts. Anatomy, techniques, indications, chapter organization and "pearls" for each block were studied. Similarities between the texts were noted, as were differences - especially items new to Labat's book or subjects unique to Pauchet. References to other authors or techniques were recorded, as well as the number of figures that were similar between the texts and those illustrations unique to Labat.
9. Bridenbaugh PO, Wedel DJ. The lower extremity somatic blockade. In: Cousins MJ, Bridenbaugh PO, eds. Neural blockade in clinical anesthesia and management of pain. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1998:378.