201 - The vascular access: a small history of a great manoeuvre
Autor(s): P. Sette, R.M. Dorizzi, G. Castellano
Issue: RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 4, N. 3, 2008 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)
Page(s): 201-205
In 1628 Sir William Harvey investigated and reported the human circulation after anatomical dissection of cadavers. Christopher Wren and Daniel Johann Major continued these studies, employing the available primitive materials. The central vein catheterization of a horse was firstly attempted by Stephen Hales, an English vicar. After more than two centuries Werner Forssmann self-experimented with cardiac catheterization, even if he was not allowed to further investigate the subject since his findings were rejected by the colleagues. His work was carried on in United States by André Frédéric Cournand and Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. The three authors shared in 1956 the Medicine Nobel Prize. Their genius and their perseverance opened the road to the field of peripheral and central vein position