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

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

Significant advances have been made in regional anaesthesia in the past 10 years. The
introduction of catheter techniques has cleared the way for better regional anaesthetic and …

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

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 …

Nerve injuries have been described as clinical, anatomic, or laboratory findings, consistent
with damage to discrete elements of the peripheral nervous system. 1 This rather broad …

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

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In view of the relatively few large studies available to
estimate the rates of complications following regional anesthesia, we aimed to identify and …

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 …

Continued reports of major and minor neurologic sequelae after central neuraxial blockade
have generated concern regarding the potential toxicity of currently available local …