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Colombian Journal of Anestesiology
Print version ISSN 0120-3347On-line version ISSN 2256-2087
Abstract
HERRERA, Pedro José and AGUIRRE-SERRANO, Herley. Juan Evangelista Manrique, the true pioneer of spinal anesthesia in Colombia. Rev. colomb. anestesiol. [online]. 2021, vol.49, n.3, e400. Epub June 12, 2021. ISSN 0120-3347. https://doi.org/10.5554/22562087.e967.
Several findings paved the way to the use of the spinal approach for anesthesia. Information about the originators and dates of their discoveries is controversial. According to personal communications, doctors Juan Bautista Montoya y Flórez, in Medellín, and Lisandro Leyva, in Bogotá, in 1904 and 1905 respectively, would appear to be the pioneers of spinal anesthesia in Colombia. Pioneering cases of this procedure carried out in 1901 by doctor Juan Evangelista Manrique and which continued to be performed by his colleagues and assistants of the medical community at the time are documented in the Corporis Fabrica dissertation collection of the National University of Colombia.
Keywords : History of medicine; spinal anesthesia; Colombia; academic dissertations; local anesthetics.