Did you know that epidurals were introduced in delivery rooms in the early 1970s?

Although the technique of epidural anaesthesia dates back to the beginning of the 20th century and the first attempts to mitigate the pain of childbirth using drugs date back to the mid-19th century (in 1847 Dr. Simpson used chloroform for the first time in childbirth), the combination of both processes did not culminate until the beginning of the 1970s. In 1953 Nicolaiev published the book "Painless childbirth", although his references were mainly to general anaesthesia methods, such as pentothal, the drug of choice in childbirth in the 1960s. As a curiosity, although epidurals were known for many years as the Dogliotti method due to the work published by this doctor in the 1930s, it was a Spaniard, Fidel Pagés, who should be considered the "father" of this technique, since in 1921 he described in detail how to perform this procedure.