Unilateral Block and Spinal Anaesthesia

Comparison of Spinal Anaesthesia and Paravertebral Block in Unilateral Inguinal Hernia Repair.

OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare the efficacy of spinal anaesthesia (SA) and paravertebral block (PVB) in unilateral inguinal hernia repair. METHODS Sixty American Society of Anesthesia physical status (ASA) I-III patients aged between 18-64 years with unilateral inguinal hernia were enrolled in this study. Two patients in Group SA and 4 patients in Group PVB were excluded, and statistical analy...

Sacral Unilateral Spinal Anaesthesia With 0.25% Hypobaric Bupivacaine

s: Background And Objectives: The geriatric patients with limited reserved organs are very prone to develop cardiovascular instability during surgical procedures. Various anaesthetic techniques are advocated for the above purpose. Spinal anaesthesia is one of them and very useful in lower limb surgeries although it is frequently complicated with hemodynamic instability. Unilateral spinal anaest...

Congenital complete heart block and spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section

Congenital complete heart block could be absolutely asymptomatic. Increased awareness of suspecting an atrioventricular heart block in patients with slow heart rate and electrocardiograph examination will ensure recognition of this problem. The possibility of sudden cardiac death in these patients should not be forgotten. The goal in the peri-operative anaesthetic management is to preserve the ...

Extradural, spinal or combined block for obstetric surgical anaesthesia.

Sir,—Dr Carrie, in an otherwise excellent review of regional anaesthesia in operative obstetrics [1], dismisses the practice of warming bupivacaine before extradural injection as being inconvenient and hardly merited because of a reduction of block onset time of only 20%. In this respect, he quotes our study [2] which recorded a reduction of 30 % in onset time. Moreover, we demonstrated a 23% r...

[The state of the art of unilateral spinal block.].