Epidural Anesthesia Combined with General Anesthesia

Combined Spinal Epidural Anesthesia

Regional anesthetic techniques are rapidly evolving to meet the needs of an ever increasing day surgery patient population. Rapidity and control of onset and offset of anesthesia with minimal side effects are now required of regional anesthetic techniques if these are to compete with general anesthesia. Spinal and combined spinal epidural (CSE) anesthesia for the day surgery patient are discuss...

Combined regional-general anesthesia: evaluation of remifentanil based general anesthesia and postoperative epidural analgesia.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether remifentanil based general anesthesia combined with epidural analgesia for postoperative pain, has any advantages with respect to consumption of drugs, blood loss, quality of pain control, hemodynamic profile, in major abdominal surgery, as compared to other combined techniques. METHODS A retrospective study based on chart reviews of patients who have undergone ...

Segmental epidural anesthesia for percutaneous kyphoplasty:comparison with general anesthesia.

BACKGROUND/AIM This is a feasibility study evaluating whether segmental epidural anesthesia is an alternative anesthetic approach to general anesthesia for percutaneous kyphoplasty. MATERIALS AND METHODS After ethics committee approval was obtained, 52 ASA class I-III patients scheduled for elective, single-level percutaneous kyphoplasty were recruited. The patients were divided into two equa...

Combined Sacral Spinal Epidural Anesthesia

[YouTube as an information source of spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia and combined spinal and epidural anesthesia].

INTRODUCTION Social media as YouTube have become a part of daily life and many studies evaluated health-related YouTube videos. Our aim was to evaluate videos available on YouTube for the conformity to textbook information and their sufficiency as a source for patient information. MATERIAL AND METHOD A search of the YouTube website was performed using the keywords "spinal anesthesia, epidural...