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Anesthesia
Studies from University of Basel add new findings in the area of anesthesia
July 13th, 2009
According to recent research from Basel, Switzerland, "Spinal anaesthesia (SA) has high success rates. However, inadequate block after SA has been reported even in the absence of technical problems." "Various mechanisms for failed SA (FSA) have been proposed, but reports of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of local anaesthetics (LA) after FSA are scarce. We report lumbar CSF concentrations of bupivacaine in 20 patients in whom adequate block after subarachnoid injection failed to develop. All patients with inadequate block after subarachnoid injection of plain bupivacaine 0.5% and in whom a second subarachnoid injection of LA was to be performed as a rescue...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2009-07-13)
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