{{Short description|English anaesthetist (1916–2013)}} {{For|the Anglican priest|Andrew Doughty (priest)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} '''Andrew Gerald Doughty''' (2 September 1916, Lincoln – 2 June 2013)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/164642/doughty|title = DOUGHTY - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements}}</ref> was an English anaesthetist.
In 1957, he invented the Doughty gag, a modification of the Boyle-Davis gag for anaesthesia during adenotonsillectomy. It has a split blade, which allows use of an endotracheal tube and is in universal use to this day.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Doughty|first=Andrew|date=25 May 1957|title=A modification of the tongue-plate of the Boyle-Davis gag|journal=Lancet|volume=272|issue=6978|page=1074|pmid=13429880|doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(57)91445-9 }}</ref><ref name = "citation">{{cite web|url=http://www.oaa-anaes.ac.uk/content.asp?ContentID=36|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207065401/http://www.oaa-anaes.ac.uk/content.asp?ContentID=36|archive-date=7 February 2012|title=Citation given by Dr Anna-Maria Rollin in 1993 on the occasion of Dr Andrew Doughty's election to Honorary Membership of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland|publisher=Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association|accessdate=28 September 2012}}</ref> He was an early promoter of the use of epidural anaesthesia during childbirth.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Doughty|first=Andrew|year=1969|title=Selective epidural analgesia and the forceps rate|journal=British Journal of Anaesthesia|volume=41|issue=12|pages=1058–1062|doi=10.1093/bja/41.12.1058|pmid=5365524|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Doughty|first=Andrew|title=Epidural Analgesia in Obstetrics: A Second Symposium, University of Warwick, Coventry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKtcAQAACAAJ&q=%22Andrew+Doughty%22|year=1980|publisher=Lloyd-Luke Medical Books|location=London}}</ref> In 1973, he set up an epidural course at Kingston Hospital. This two-week-long, one-on-one training course drew attendees from all over the world, and places had to be booked years in advance.<ref name = "citation" />
He was born in 1916 in Lincoln and qualified from St Thomas's Hospital in 1941. In retirement Doughty lived in Thames Ditton.
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