Henryk Hilarowicz: The Forgotten Polish Inventor and Pioneer of the Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block

Jerzy Wordliczek; Joanna Jakowicka-Wordliczek; Renata Zajaczkowska

doi:10.1016/j.janh.2018.01.001

Henryk Hilarowicz: The Forgotten Polish Inventor and Pioneer of the Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block

J Anesth Hist. 2018 Jan;4(1):11-17. doi: 10.1016/j.janh.2018.01.001. Epub 2018 Jan 31.

Authors

Jerzy Wordliczek¹, Joanna Jakowicka-Wordliczek², Renata Zajaczkowska³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Interdisciplinary Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Trauma Centre of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, University Hospital, Krakow, Poland.
³ Department of Interdisciplinary Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Krakow, Poland. Electronic address: renia356@poczta.onet.pl.

PMID: 29559089
DOI: 10.1016/j.janh.2018.01.001

Abstract

Professor Henryk Hilarowicz was a Polish surgeon who first described the technique of brachial plexus block performed in the interscalene groove between the anterior and middle scalene muscles. The article devoted to the technique appeared in the German-language journal Zentralblatt für Chirurgie in 1925, 45 years before Alon Winnie, who is widely regarded as the originator of this method, published his paper in Anesthesia & Analgesia in 1970.

Publication types

Biography
Historical Article
Portrait

MeSH terms

Anesthesia, Local / history*
Anesthesia, Local / methods
Brachial Plexus Block / history*
History, 20th Century
Humans
Inventors / history
Poland
Surgeons / history*

Personal name as subject

Henryk Hilarowicz