Herrera A, de las Mulas M
Servicios de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla.
Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim. 1996 Feb;43(2):59-66.
Fidel Pagés was born in Huesca on the 26th of January 1886. He completed his secondary studies in the same city, later receiving his degree in medicine and surgery from University of Zaragoza (1908) with high honors. The same year he joined the army medical corp, to be sent to serve in Melilla in 1909 with a rank of second medical officer. After being promoted in 1911 to first medical officer, he served in Tarragona, Toledo, Madrid (where received his doctoral degree), Ciudad Real, and once again in Madrid. In 1913 Pagés married and was destined to Mahón, only to return to work at the War Ministry in Madrid in 1915, after a brief sojourn in Alicante. The same year he placed first in competition for a staff position at Madrid's Hospital Provincial. In 1917, during World War I, he inspected POW camps in Austria and Hungary, while also serving in the military hospital in Vienna. In 1919 he became the founding editor of Revista Española de Cirugía, which published "Anestesia metamérica" in 1921, simultaneous to its publication in Revista de Sanidad Militar. In 1920 on he was assigned to Madrid's Hospital Militar de Urgencia, but was also briefly sent to Melilla in 1921 as a consequence of the military "Disaster at Annual". In 1922 he was promoted to the rank of Medical Commandant. On the 21st of September 1923, Pagés died in a traffic accident while returning to Madrid from San Sebastián. His work was soon forgotten, as can be seen from the credit long given to the Italian surgeon Dogliotti for the discovery of epidural anesthesia. Only with passing time, and through the effort of Argentinian and Spanish physicians, has the world come to recognize Pagés as the original author of this technique.
菲德尔·帕赫斯于1886年1月26日出生在韦斯卡。他在同一座城市完成了中学学业，后来以优异成绩从萨拉戈萨大学获得医学和外科学位（1908年）。同年，他加入了军队医疗队，1909年被派往梅利利亚服役，担任二级军医。1911年晋升为一级军医后，他先后在塔拉戈纳、托莱多、马德里（在那里获得博士学位）、雷阿尔城服役，之后又回到马德里。1913年，帕赫斯结婚并被派往马翁，在阿利坎特短暂停留后，于1915年回到马德里，在战争部工作。同年，他在马德里省立医院的员工职位竞争中获得第一名。1917年，第一次世界大战期间，他视察了奥地利和匈牙利的战俘营，同时也在维也纳的军事医院服役。1919年，他成为《西班牙外科学杂志》的创始编辑，该杂志于1921年发表了《节段性麻醉》，同时该文也在《军事卫生杂志》上发表。1920年起，他被分配到马德里的紧急军事医院，但由于军事上的“年度灾难”，他在1921年也被短暂派往梅利利亚。1922年，他晋升为军医指挥官。1923年9月21日，帕赫斯在从圣塞瓦斯蒂安返回马德里的途中死于一场交通事故。他的工作很快被遗忘，从长期以来人们认为是意大利外科医生多廖蒂发现了硬膜外麻醉就可以看出。只是随着时间的推移，经过阿根廷和西班牙医生的努力，世界才开始认识到帕赫斯是这项技术的原创者。
