… However, with high thoracic levels of spinal anaesthesia, both upper extremity and splanchnic
vasoconstriction is abolished and may lead to significant haemodynamic compromise. It is …

… spinal anaesthesia after previous spine surgery. Success rates for spinal anaesthesia in
patients with spine pathology who are presenting for their initial surgery is also high. Tetzlaff et …

… spinal anaesthesia appears to offer advantages over general anaesthesia for lumbar spine
… , although the included trials are at high risk of bias, there seems to be evidence that spinal …

… once the spinal anaesthetic had been performed. A recent French audit on regional anaesthesia
showed a risk of cardiac arrest after spinal … Spinal anaesthesia is associated with a high …

… Isolated spinal hypotension should be distinguished from high spinal anaesthesia at
Caesarean section, which is a rare, but potentially devastating complication. The exact clinical …

… Consecutive patients living at moderately high altitude (Erzurum, 1890 m above the sea …
with spinal anaesthesia were enrolled in this study (n = 70, for each group). Same anaesthesia …

… A high spinal block can produce intercostal muscle paralysis, but this does not usually
create any problems, unless the patient is very limited by his respiratory disease. …

… did not include complete or high spinal as a “major” … high spinal events. The UK and French
studies included limited data on fatal cardio-respiratory collapse following spinal anaesthesia…

… for spinal anaesthesia Only preservative-free agents should be used for spinal anaesthesia,
… for intrathecal use because of the high incidence of transient neurological symptoms (TNS)…

… In summary, we have shown that high spinal block was associated with sedation. This
confirms that sedation must be carefully titrated in patients with high central block. …