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Practical Pharmacology in Regional Anesthesia

Safety in pediatric regional anesthesia.

The use of regional anesthesia is increasingly common in pediatric practice. This review reports the complications and risks in pediatric regional anesthesia. Few large studies reported incidence of complications. However, the different studies have shown that regional anesthesia, when performed properly, carried a very low risk of morbidity in appropriately selected infants and children. In ad...

Regional Anesthesia in Trauma Medicine

Regional anesthesia is an established method to provide analgesia for patients in the operating room and during the postoperative phase. While regional anesthesia offers unique advantages, as shown by the recent military experience, it is not commonly utilized in the prehospital or emergency department setting. Most often, regional anesthesia techniques for traumatized patients are first utiliz...

Regional Anesthesia Section Editor

The ideal technique for identifying the epidural space remains unclear. Five-hundred-forty-seven women in labor who requested epidural analgesia were randomly allocated to three groups according to the technique by which the epidural space was identified: 1) loss-ofresistance with air (air; n 180), 2) loss-of-resistance with lidocaine (lidocaine; n 185), and 3) loss-ofresistance with both air a...