RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Exploring Origins: Was John Bonica's Model of Modern-Day Pain Management Influenced by John Lundy's Earlier Work?
JF Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine
JO Reg Anesth Pain Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 258
OP 262
DO 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.12.006
VO 32
IS 3
A1 Sen, Surjya
A1 Martin, David P.
A1 Bacon, Douglas R.
YR 2007
UL http://rapm.bmj.com/content/32/3/258.abstract
AB Contemporary pain medicine is a multimodality and multidisciplinary field. Many of the current ideas and styles of practice that influence the specialty today can be traced back to John Bonica, M.D., and his model of pain management introduced more than 50 years ago. Although much of the foundation that Bonica helped form involved several original concepts, historically, other anesthesiologists who were Bonica's predecessors also laid the groundwork for what the practice of pain medicine is today. In particular, Emery Rovenstine, M.D., and John Lundy, M.D., had early block clinics to treat painful conditions. While in the army during World War II, Bonica worked closely with his Chief of Surgery, Joel Deuterman, M.D., a physician who had trained at the Mayo Clinic, where he was exposed to Lundy and his techniques. Deuterman may have influenced Bonica's ideas concerning the treatment of chronic painful conditions.