BACKGROUND: Regional anesthesia (RA) provides excellent anesthesia and analgesia for
many surgical procedures. Anesthesiologists and patients must understand the risks in …

The complications of failure, neural injury and local anaesthetic toxicity are common to all
regional anaesthesia techniques, and individual techniques are associated with specific …

Principles of Safe Practice in Local and Regional Anesthesia, to stress the relatively new
emphasis and importance on safety and prevention and to broaden our horizons to include …

Background and Objectives: Peripheral nerve blockade is associated with excellent patient
outcomes after surgery; however, neurologic and other complications can be devastating for …

Complications of regional anaesthesia has been recognised from very long time. Fortunately
serious complication are rare. Safe, effective practice of neuraxial anaesthesia requires a …

Background Serious complications related to regional anesthesia have previously been
described primarily in case reports and retrospective surveys. The authors prospectively …

The complications of failure, neural injury and local anaesthetic toxicity are common to all
regional anaesthetic techniques, and individual techniques are associated with specific …

The onset of neurologic complications after regional anesthesia is a complex process and
may result from an interaction of host, agent, and environmental risk factors. The purpose of …

Perioperative nerve injuries have long been recognized as a complication of regional
anesthesia. Fortunately, severe or disabling neurologic complications rarely occur. Risk …

Background Several previous surveys have estimated the rate of major complications that
occur after regional anesthesia. However, because of the increase in the use of regional …