Fidel Pagés

Who was Fidel Pagés?

Fidel Pagés Miravé was a Spanish military surgeon, known for developing the technique of epidural anesthesia.

He practised a wide range of traumatological and surgical techniques, both for war injuries and civil purposes, contributed to the modernisation of surgery in Spain and participated actively in the reorganisation of the Spanish Military Health system in the 1920s. Due to his early accidental death, his pioneering work in epidural anesthesia went unnoticed for many years outside of Spanish speaking countries until he was finally given full credit by the medical community in the 1930s and 40s.