Avelino Praxedes Gutierrez Fernandez, Spanish-born Argentine surgeon and anatomist (San Pedro de Sola, Santander, Cantabria 21 July 1864 – Buenos Aires 20 February 1946)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Described new techniques mainly for gastrointestinal surgery

Developed Gutierrez procedure for treatment of chronic osteomielitis (1896)

Tratamiento de las osteomielitis. Rev. Iberoamericana 7:23, 1902

Established a surgical method for treatment of hydatid cysts (1905)

Sobre un nuevo procedimiento de oclusión del duodeno y estomago en las gastrectomias por cancer de este organo  (a new procedure for stomach occlusion in cancer gastrectomies)

Developed a retroauricular incision for parotidectomy (Gutierrez incision)

Eponym of Gutierrez humerotricipital triangle and Gutierrez nephrocolopexy  

His son, Alberto Gutierrez Saenz, surgeon (Buenos Aires 10 November 1892 – Bariloche 23 February 1945)

Authored over 300 papers and 9 books

Created and developed hanging drop method for epidural anesthesia

El valor de la aspiración liquida en el espacio peridural en la anestesia peridural. Rev. Cir. Buenos Aires 12:225-30, 1933

Reported neuropexy

Developed new methods of regional blocks for certain surgical procedures

Designed a device to infiltrate rapidly local anesthesics

Dispositivo para anesthesia local. Rev. Hosp. Español 9:39-40, 1932

Designed Gutierrez needle for epidural anesthesia  

Eponym of Gutierrez sign