Norbert Ortner von Rodenstätt (10 August 1865 – 1 March 1935) was an Austrian internist, whose name is associated with two cardiovascular syndromes.
Ortner was born in Linz, and was a pupil and successor of Edmund von Neusser (1852–1912) at the Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna.
A description of the procedure appears in the medical record, and is one of the exhibits of the Vienna Pathological-Anatomical Museum (Pathologisch-Anatomisches Bundesmuseum in Wien).
Die beiden großen Halsschlagadern werden freigelegt, in dieselben werden Kanülen eingebunden und sodann mit Formalin in concentriertem Zustand in den Kopf einerseits, in den Rumpf anderseits eingespritzt in der Menge von 5 Liter.
Schließlich werden die gesetzten Halswunden vernäht.The entry is signed by Alexander Kolisko, the pathologist and court doctor, by Joseph Ritter von Kerzl, the Kaiser's personal physician, and by Ortner, as the director of the Second Medical University Clinic at the hospital in Vienna.