The concept of nerve block sometimes include " central nerve block ", which includes epidural and spinal anaesthesia.
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If surgery allows, spinal anaesthesia is very useful in patients with severe respiratory disease such as COPD as it avoids intubation and ventilation.
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They may contribute to the care of a woman in labour by performing epidurals or by providing anaesthesia ( often spinal anaesthesia ) for Cesarean section or forceps delivery.
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These data are based upon a retrospective review of 672 patients suitable for spinal anaesthesia in surgical procedures less than 60 minutes'duration using 30 40 mg chloroprocaine.
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The attention of the profession was first drawn to this risk in this country by the publication of Professor Macintosh's book on Lumbar Puncture and Spinal Anaesthesia in 1951.
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Spinal anaesthesia is the technique of choice for Caesarean section as it avoids a general anaesthetic and the risk of failed intubation ( which is approximately 1 in 250 in pregnant women ).
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In 1877, Clover invented an ether inhaler with a water jacket, and by the late 1899 alternatives to ether came to the fore, mainly due to the introduction of spinal anaesthesia.
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LMWHs should be used with extreme caution in patients undergoing any procedure involving spinal anaesthesia / puncture, in conditions with increased risk of bleeding or in patients with a history of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
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In tetracaine spinal anaesthesia, it was discovered that the rate of onset of analgesia was faster and the maximum level of analgesia was higher with a 10 % glucose solution than with a 5 % glucose spinal anaesthetic solution.
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The first planned spinal anaesthesia for surgery in man was administered by August Bier ( 1861 1949 ) on 16 August 1898, in Kiel, when he injected 3 ml of 0.5 % cocaine solution into a 34-year-old labourer.
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