• With the help of colleague Waldo B. Edwards, he also developed the continuous caudal anesthesia epidural administration to alleviate the pain of childbirth. (wikipedia.org)
  • Robert Andrew Hingson (April 13, 1913 - October 9, 1996) was an American physician who served as the first professor of anesthesiology at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1938, Hingson developed a painless method of inoculating patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • The couple had five children, the youngest of which-Luke Hingson-succeeded Robert as president of Brother's Brother Foundation until 2019. (wikipedia.org)
  • His awards include the Labat Award from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and the President's Volunteer Action Award. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among them were the Labat Award from the American Society of Regional Anesthesia in 1981 and President Reagan's President's Volunteer Action Award in 1987. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hadzic's Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management, 2e Hadzic A. Hadzic A(Ed.), Ed. Admir Hadzic. (mhmedical.com)
  • By "regional anesthesia" is meant fendal block, or spinal, caudal, or lumbar tural block, with no supplementary anesthesia Many kind. (nih.gov)
  • In 382 breech deliveries there was no difference in the death rates in the regional anesthesia and general anesthesia groups:(Table II). (nih.gov)
  • While serving in the Atlantic, Hingson treated U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. who was suffering from an intense migraine, "blind from pain and on the verge of collapse. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unfortunately, clinical indications, and especially therapeutic interventions for the relief of chronic pain in individuals with failed back surgery syndrome, are often most prevalent in patients with difficult caudal landmarks. (mhmedical.com)
  • premedication in all cases was 50 mg. of manerol and 0.4 mg. of scopolamine intramuscu- In 67 sections with cyclopropane there one infant death, as there was also in a group 66 sections with spinal anesthesia. (nih.gov)
  • It is impossible to compare emergency cesarean sections by these two methods of anesthesia, for in almost all cases cyclopropane anesthesia was chosen for reasons of the necessity of speed, The main objection to spinal anesthesia voiced in some quarters is the high maternal death rate. (nih.gov)
  • One of the major reasons caudal anesthesia was not embraced is the wide anatomical variations of sacral bones and the consequent failure rate associated with attempts to locate the sacral hiatus. (mhmedical.com)
  • As thanks, Morgenthau secured Hingson a position at the Mayo Clinic from 1939 to 1941. (wikipedia.org)
  • ir the past five years in this clinic 70 per cent he infants have been in excellent condition, er cent moderately depressed, and 6 per cent rely depressed, as judged by a scoring sys- (* This incidence apparently prevailed Meher the anesthesia was by a regional method, Bneral anesthetic method, or even if no anes- na at all were used. (nih.gov)
  • Hingson developed multiple medical devices, including the jet injector for inoculations. (wikipedia.org)
  • A fortuitous accident, Hingson not only healed the seaman but began research on a high-pressure injection system for medical use. (wikipedia.org)