RT Book, Section
A1 Gaertner, Elizabeth
A1 Fouché, Elisabeth
A1 Choquet, Olivier
A1 Hadzic, Admir
A1 Vloka, Jerry D.
A2 Hadzic, Admir
SR Print(0)
ID 3502391
T1 Chapter 37. Sciatic Nerve Block
T2 NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
YR 2007
FD 2007
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071449069
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3502391
RD 2023/09/27
AB Victor  Pauchet  first  described  the  sciatic  nerve  block  in  L'Anesthésie  Régionale  in  1920:  “the  site  of  needle  insertion  for  blocking  the  sciatic  nerve  at  the  level  of  hip:  3  cm  along  the  perpendicular  that  bisects  a  line  drawn  between  the  greater  trochanter  and  the  posterior  superior  iliac  spine.”1  Although  this  technique  is  referred  to  as  “The  classic  approach  of  Labat,”  it  was  in  fact  first  described  by  Labat's  teacher,  Pauchet.  Perhaps  the  reason  for  the  name  designation  comes  from  the  fact  that  the  sciatic  nerve  block  was  first  described  in  anesthesia  literature  in  1923  by  Gaston  Labat  in  his  book,  Regional  Anesthesia:  Its  Technic  and  Clinical  Application.2  Of  note,  Labat  in  the  same  year  founded  the  American  Society  of  Regional  Anesthesia  (ASRA).  Anecdotally,  Labat  intended  to  name  the  new  group  “the  Labat  Society”  in  his  honor,  but  the  name  ASRA  remains  today  as  we  know  it.  Labat's  book  went  through  several  reprintings  of  the  first  edition  and  was  one  of  the  first  English  language  anesthesia  textbooks  of  regional  anesthesia  in  the  United  States.  Curiously,  this  book  was  similar  to  L'Anesthésie  Régionale,  written  by  Labat's  tutor,  Pauchet,  from  1918  to  1920  in  the  University  of  Paris.