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Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  July 1, 1998 ;   Thompson, Gale E;   787 words ......the inception of the practice of spinal anesthesia since so very little was known about...favorite "hero" in the legends of spinal anesthesia was Professor Thomas Jonnesco of...bold and misleading commentary about spinal anesthesia was as follows: "General spinal ...

Physiology of spinal anesthesia: What are the implications for management?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  July 1, 1998 ;   Butterworth, John;   787 words ......understanding of the physiology of spinal anesthesia is essential for its safe and effective...interest and research on the effects of spinal anesthesia on the various organ systems, exactly...local anesthetics bind to produce spinal anesthesia remains speculative ( 1). This lack...

The performance of spinal anesthesia is marginally more difficult in the...

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  March 1, 1999 ;   Tessler, Michael J; Kardash, Ken; Wahba, Richard M; Kleiman, Simcha J; Et al;   787 words ......We sought to determine if spinal anesthesia is more difficult to perform...increased technical difficulty with spinal anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med 1999: 24: 126-130. Key words: spinal anesthesia, geriatrics, anesthetic techniques...

Cardiovascular effects of 6% hetastarch and lactated ringer's solution...

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  September 1, 1999 ;   Marhofer, Peter; Oismuller, Christiane; Koinig, Herbert; Et al;   787 words ......hemodynamic impairment following spinal anesthesia in elderly patients undergoing emergent...lactated Ringer's solution (group R), spinal anesthesia was administered with 3.0 mL 0.5...prior to fluid administration, before spinal anesthesia, and 10, 20, and 30 minutes following...

Increase in Skin Temperature After Spinal Anesthesia in Infants

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  November 1, 2006 ;   Jetzek-Zader, Martin; Hermanns, Henning; Freynhagen, Rainer; Lipfert, Peter; Stevens, Markus F;   787 words ......relatively stable hemodynamics during spinal anesthesia in infants have been attributed to...for repair of inguinal hernia under spinal anesthesia, skin temperature at the T4 level...foot was measured before and after spinal anesthesia. Spinal anesthesia was induced ...

Bacterial Meningitis Ten Days After Spinal Anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  March 1, 2005 ;   Bussink, Michiel; Gramke, Hans-Fritz; van Kleef, Maarten; Marcus, Marco;   628 words ...To the Editor: Meningitis after spinal anesthesia caused by Streptococcus viridans...increasing. Delayed-onset meningitis after spinal anesthesia is even more rare.1 In most cases...the symptoms started 10 days after spinal anesthesia. A 42-year-old, previously healthy...

Extending indications for spinal anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  July 1, 1998 ;   Mulroy, Michael F;   787 words ...Even after 100 years of use, spinal anesthesia continues to find new dimensions...and in part because of new drugs, spinal anesthesia is now applied to the extremes of...Patients Because of its simplicity, spinal anesthesia is an easy regional technique to...

Continuous spinal anesthesia: A continuous history

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  September 1, 1999 ;   Tobias, Gregory; Sands, Robert P Jr; Bacon, Douglas R;   787 words ...Continuous spinal anesthesia is a technique that has appeared...after the first reports of spinal anesthesia. However, the technique was...investigation regarding continuous spinal anesthesia has waxed and waned in English...

Thermoregulatory effects of spinal and epidural anesthesia during cesarean...

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  July 1, 1998 ;   Saito, Toshiyuki; Sessler, Daniel I; Fujita, Kazuaki; Ooi, Yoshiyui; Jeffrey, Renee;   787 words ......is likely to develop faster during spinal anesthesia than epidural anesthesia. A natural...rapid temperature decrease during spinal anesthesia is that the shivering threshold will...delivery were randomly assigned to spinal anesthesia or epidural anesthesia. Spinal ...

Reply to letter: Low-dose spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery: Have we...

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  March 1, 2001 ;   Den-David, Bruce;   403 words ......practice of using low doses of LA for spinal anesthesia. It is actually a relatively new...however, agree that the risk of high spinal anesthesia with respiratory compromise is less...of an endotracheal tube following spinal anesthesia with traditional doses of LA. In...

Potential neurotoxicity of spinal anesthesia with lidocaine

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  September 1, 2000 ;   Johnson, Michael E;   787 words ......as about 1 in 200 after continuous spinal anesthesia with lidocaine. While uncommon, this...anesthesiology. For surgery below the chest, spinal anesthesia offers the clinical advantages of...However, at midcentury the safety of spinal anesthesia was fiercely debated; eg, a 1952...

Intrathecal lipophilic opioids as adjuncts to surgical spinal anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  May 1, 1999 ;   Hamber, Elizabeth A; Viscomi, Christopher M;   787 words ......administered intrathecally as adjuncts to spinal anesthesia. This review analyzes the efficacy...lipophilic opioids as adjuncts to spinal anesthesia were found: 59 are cited in this...general anesthesia is combined with spinal anesthesia and enhancement of the quality of...

Spinal 2-Chloroprocaine: Minimum Effective Dose

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  January 1, 2005 ;   Kopacz, Dan J;   787 words ......free 2-chloroprocaine (2-CP) for spinal anesthesia have shown it to be a reliable short-acti...establish the minimum effective dose for spinal anesthesia, this randomized, double-blind, crossover...anesthetics, Outpatient anesthesia, Spinal anesthesia. Before the development of ...

Perspectives on spinal anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  July 1, 1998 ;   Wildsmith, J A W; Brown, D L;   652 words ......reflecting on the important aspects of spinal anesthesia 100 years after the introduction of the technique into clinical practice. Spinal anesthesia, like most anesthetic techniques...years, the biggest concern regarding spinal anesthesia has been the potential for neurologic...

Low-dose spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery: Have we gone too far?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  March 1, 2001 ;   Hepner, David L;   599 words ......Both authors suggest using low-dose spinal anesthesia with bupivacaine (5 and 8 mg, respectively...for cesarean delivery. Low-dose spinal anesthesia has enjoyed a resurgence in the last...anesthesia, with a particular emphasis on spinal anesthesia, was gaining an increased role in...