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 complications of failure, neural injury and local anaesthetic toxicity are common to all
regional anaesthesia 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 …

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

Objective. To extract experimental data of importance for the understanding of neurotoxicity
of local anesthetics, with special reference to continuous spinal anesthesia. Methods …

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Practice Advisory on
Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity assimilates and summarizes current knowledge …

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 …

Although new drugs and techniques may improve outcomes when unintended high blood
levels of local anesthetics occur, the primary focus of daily practice should remain the …

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 …