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Spinal anesthesia

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2005
The aim of this article is to review current practice of spinal anesthesia regarding technique and medication use; review recent applications of spinal anesthesia to subspecialty care in outpatient, cardiac, and obstetrical anesthesia; and update risk assessment associated with spinal anesthesia.Epidural volume extension enhances the spread of local ...
Monica M, Mordecai, Sorin J, Brull
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RATIONALE FOR SPINAL ANESTHESIA

International Anesthesiology Clinics, 1989
Spinal anesthesia is probably the most widely used form of regional anesthesia today. A number of clinical studies suggest that spinal anesthesia may be superior to general or epidural anesthesia for certain patients and for certain surgical procedures. The endocrine-metabolic response to surgery appears to be blunted when spinal anesthesia is employed
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Perineural and Spinal Anesthesia

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice, 1991
Local and regional anesthetic techniques are useful tools for the equine practitioner. These techniques allow surgery to be performed without the risk and cost of general anesthesia. There are, however, risks associated with the local and regional techniques.
J S, Gaynor, J A, Hubbell
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Continuous Spinal Anesthesia

American Journal of Therapeutics, 2009
Continuous spinal anesthesia (CSA) is an underutilized technique in modern anesthesia practice. Compared with other techniques of neuraxial anesthesia, CSA allows incremental dosing of an intrathecal local anesthetic for an indefinite duration, whereas traditional single-shot spinal anesthesia usually involves larger doses, a finite, unpredictable ...
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Spinal anesthesia in proctology

The American Journal of Surgery, 1950
Abstract 1. 1. A technic is described of securing spinal anesthesia with 20 mg. of procaine in a hyperbarit solution containing 1:20,000 epinephrine. 2. 2. The method is uniformly safe. Blood pressure changes are absent or minimal. Changes in pulse and respirations are absent.
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Neurologic Complications of Spinal Anesthesia

Anesthesiology, 1946
Neurologic complications, although infrequent, may follow spinal or general anesthesia. There are reports in the literature of cranial nerve palsies, 1 hemiplegia 2 and peripheral neuropathies 2a following general as well as spinal anesthesia. Certain neurologic complications are prone to follow spinal anesthesia while others are more frequent after ...
M J, NICHOLSON, U H, EVERSOLE
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Spinal anesthesia in obstetrics

The American Journal of Surgery, 1927
Abstract We believe that this work, though small, is sufficient to show that spinal anesthesia by the technic indicated and in the dosage employed, is safe for obstetric use. The single contraindication is hypotension. It is not fitted for first-stage analgesia by reason of its short duration.
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SPINAL ANESTHESIA IN HYPERTENSION

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1933
To the Editor:— My preliminary note on the use of spinal anesthesia in hypertension (The Journal, Oct. 28, 1933, p. 1410) has apparently served to arouse considerable interest in this subject if I may judge from the number of favorable communications that have been received. The objection of Dr. L. J. Bragman (The Journal, Dec. 16, 1933, p.
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Spinal Anesthesia

Anesthesiology, 1946
C H, LUPTON, C H, LUPTON
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