Regional anaesthesia

Spinal, epidural, caudal and peripheral blocks, labour analgesia and their complications.

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Technique

• Caudal block in childrenNumbing medicine injected through a small gap at the bottom of the spine, usually after the…
• Epidural anaesthesia and analgesiaA thin tube placed just outside the covering of the spinal cord carries numbing medicine for…
• Labour analgesiaWays to ease labour pain, mainly the epidural: a thin tube in the back gives mild numbing…
• Peripheral nerve blocks in principleNumbing medicine placed next to a nerve or plexus so that one limb or body area stops feeling…
• Spinal anaesthesiaA single injection of local anaesthetic into the fluid around the lower spinal nerves numbs the…

Concept

• Complications of neuraxial blocks: headache, hypotension, haematoma, infectionSpinal and epidural blocks are usually safe, but they can cause headache, low blood pressure…

Crisis

• Local anaesthetic systemic toxicity: the crisisA dangerous reaction when too much numbing medicine reaches the blood, affecting the brain and…

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Educational content; it does not replace supervised training, your institution's protocols or the anaesthetist's or intensivist's decision. It contains no doses and no ventilator or infusion settings.

Representative model, for educational purposes only.