Correspondence: Litigation related to regional anaesthesia: careful reading and interpretation needed

Careful screening and scrutiny needed to select ambulatory surgery patients.

Correspondence Anaesthesia for Adenotonsillectomy

Sir,—I would like to offer my congratulations to Dr. Andrew Doughty for his excellent paper entitled " Anaesthesia for Adenotonsillectomy" (Brit. J. Anaesth. (1957), 29, 407). As Dr. Doughty so rightly points out, the child should be entitled to receive the maximum benefits from the improvements in anaesthetic techniques which have taken place during recent years. I cannot, however, agree with ...

REGIONAL ANAESTHESIA New oral anticoagulants and regional anaesthesia

Editor’s key points † Novel oral anticoagulants have been approved recently that impact the performance of regional anaesthesia. † Recommendations differ in their guidance on timing for regional anaesthesia relative to anticoagulant discontinuation and resumption. † Anaesthetists must balance the risks of bleeding with thrombotic complications based on drug pharmacokinetics and patient-dependen...

Regional anaesthesia.

Sciatic nerve block is frequently used for anaesthesia or analgesia during orthopaedic foot surgery and there are several different approaches to the sciatic nerve. This report describes a new approach to the sciatic nerve using ultrasound. Local anesthetic was injected into the ‘subgluteal space’ under ultrasound guidance which was effective in producing sciatic nerve block in a small series o...

REGIONAL ANAESTHESIA Does regional anaesthesia really improve outcome?

Editor’s key points † Outcome studies showing differences in mortality between regional and general anaesthetic techniques are probably impossible. † Meta-analyses have shown improved outcomes for specific endpoints associated with specific regional anaesthesia techniques. Summary. In recent decades, a number of studies have attempted to determine whether regional anaesthesia offers convincing ...