Fernando Alemanno •
Mario Bosco • Aldo Barbati
Editors

2014

A State of the Art Guide

The second decade of the last century was a magical time for regional anesthesia of the upper extremity. It was the period that witnessed the advent of the four most important percutaneous brachial plexus block techniques: Hirschel’s axillary technique on July 18 and Kulenkampff’s supraclavicular technique on October 7, Kappis posterior approach in 1912 followed by Barny’s infraclavicular approach in 1914.