Alon P. Winnie

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Alonzo "Alon" Palm Winnie (born May 16, 1932 in Whitefish Bay , Wisconsin , † January 18, 2015 in Glenview , Illinois ) was an American doctor , anesthetist and university professor.

Life

Alon Winnie was born as the second son of radio reporter Russell "Russ" G. Winnie († 1957) and his wife Evelyn "Avie" Winnie († 1958). He still had a brother handle Winnie. After graduating from Milwaukee Country Day School, he received an undergraduate degree (or first degree , bachelor's degree ) from Princeton University . Here his interests were initially the English language and poetics .

But already in Princeton he attended the premedical courses and then studied medicine at Northwestern University Medical School . He obtained his MD in 1958. In 1959 he became seriously ill with poliomyelitis and has been working as a wheelchair user ever since . After a tracheotomy on October 26, 1959 and ventilation on the Mueller-Mørch Piston Respirator, he survived the severe course. Two years earlier, at the age of forty-nine, his father had suddenly died of a massive myocardial infarction . His mother followed him the following year, and another year later his brother died of subarachnoid hemorrhage at the age of 25 .

After graduating, he practiced as an anesthetist at Cook County Hospital until 1972 . He was later appointed Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center . During those years, from 1971 to 1972, he was President of the Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists. A position he held for seven years. In 1989 Winnie became director of the University of Illinois Pain Control Center. A position that he held until 1992, when he was won over to Cook County Hospital, where he was chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management. In 1975 Winnie was together with Jordan Katz, Donald Bridenbaugh, Harold Carron and P. Prithvi Raj the five founding fathers of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA), which he also served as the first president until 1980. Winnie died after suffering a stroke at Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, Illinois. He left behind his wife and daughter Debbie and two sons Alon, Russell Winnie.

He made a name for himself in medicine by improving regional anesthesia techniques , such as the interscalene blockade (1964). He was a professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Winnie has served as a member or in an executive role in more than a dozen major medical societies. The portrait of his personality is rounded off by mentioning his artistic interests, he loved the performing arts , was involved in theater productions and composed his own pieces of music.

Works

  • Plexus Anesthesia: Volume I Perivascular Techniques of Brachial Plexus Block (Plexus Anesthesia). WB Saunders Company, 1983, ISBN 0-7216-1172-9 .
  • Interscalene brachial plexus block. In: Anesth Analg. 49 (3), 1970 May-Jun, pp. 455-466. PMID 5534420
  • We salute. In: Anesthesia & Analgesia. September / October 1975, Volume 54, Issue 5, pp. 600-601.
  • with KE Langen, KD Candido, M. King and G. Marra: The effect of motor activity on the onset and progression of brachial plexus block with bupivacaine: a randomized prospective study in patients undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery. In: Anesth Analg. 106 (2), 2008 Feb, pp. 659-663, table of contents. doi: 10.1213 / ane.0b013e31815edad6 .
  • with Zerin P. Dadabhoy: Regional Anesthesia for Cesarean Section in a Parturient with Noonan's Syndrome Author Affiliations & Notes. In: Anesthesiology. 4 1988, vol. 68, pp. 636-638.
  • with S. Ramamurthy and Z. Durrani: The inguinal paravascular technic of lumbar plexus anesthesia. In: Anesthesia & Analgesia. 52, 1973, pp. 989-996.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alon P. Winnie, MD May 16, 1932 - January 18, 2015. at: donnellanfuneral.com
  2. ↑ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY, Morch, Ernst Trier
  3. ↑ Ernst Trier Morch , MD (1908-1996) Patententschrift the respirator
  4. ^ List of Presidents of the Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.isahq.org  
  5. ↑ Official website of the institution.
  6. ↑ AE Ptaszynski, TT Horlocker, DR Bacon, JC Rowlingson: Alon P. Winnie, L. Donald Bridenbaugh, jr., Harold Carron, P. Prithvi Raj, and Jordan Katz: founding fathers of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia. In: Reg Anesth Pain Med. 31 (1), 2006 Jan-Feb, pp. 71-78.
  7. ↑ ASRA Founding Father and Past President Dr. Alon P. Winnie Dies After Suffering Stroke Earlier This Month. January 20, 2015, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
  8. ^ H. Albrecht, P. Berle et al .: Regional anesthesia. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart / New York 1985, ISBN 3-437-10949-9 , pp. 20-25.
personal data
SURNAME Winnie, Alon P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winnie, Alonzo Palm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor and anesthetist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitefish Bay , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2015
Place of death Glenview , Illinois