Bier's block; 100 years old and still going strong!

S. Brill; W. Middleton; G. Brill; A. Fisher

doi:10.1111/j.1399-6576.2004.00280.x

Bier's block; 100 years old and still going strong!

S. Brill, W. Middleton, G. Brill, A. Fisher

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In August 1908 Karl August Bier, Professor of Surgery in Berlin, described a new method of producing analgesia of a limb which he named 'vein anesthesia'. Bier first presented his new method of intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) at the 37th Congress of the German Surgical Society on 22 April, 1908, only 10 years after his significant communication on spinal anesthesia (1). His method, which now bears his name, consisted of occluding the circulation in a segment of the arm with two tourniquets and then injecting a dilute local anesthetic through a venous cut-down in the isolated segment. Bier had the good fortune to use procaine, the first safe injectable local anesthetic that had been synthesized by Einhorn in 1904.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	117-122
Number of pages	6
Journal	Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
Volume	48
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-6576.2004.00280.x
State	Published - 1 Jan 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bier block
History
IVRA

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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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