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

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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 ...

Extending indications for spinal anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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...

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

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  March 1, 2001 ;     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 ;     700+ 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 ;     700+ 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...

Perspectives on spinal anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  July 1, 1998 ;     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 ;     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...

Influence of lumbar spine pathology on the incidence of paresthesia during...

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......injection of local anesthetic for spinal anesthesia. Although the incidence of neurologic complications after spinal anesthesia is extremely low, the significance...incidence of paresthesia during spinal anesthesia is studied. Methods. Incidence...

Comparison of Ondansetron and Meperidine for Prevention of Shivering in...

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......prevention of shivering during and after spinal anesthesia. Methods: In this double-blind study...intravenously immediately before spinal anesthesia, respectively. Group C received saline...temperature and block level during spinal anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med 2006;31:40-45...

Walking spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery--have we walked too far?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  January 1, 2002 ;     627 words ...Walking Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery-Have We Walked...Editor: We would like to report a new spinal anesthesia technique for cesarean delivery. In many institutions, spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery has once again...

A Case Report of Reappearance of Spinal Anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......a case of reappearance of spinal anesthesia despite the use of plain...Report: A 66-year-old man had spinal anesthesia for knee arthroscopy. Two hours after the induction of spinal anesthesia and after the patient's motor...