LIGNOCAINE SPINAL ANALGESIA.

Spinal Analgesia

cause was obvious. I failed to get the C. S. fluid to run out rapidly. It came out in very slow drops. I ought to have made a fresh puncture, but wished to try if it were possible to get analgesia under such conditions. Case 17 might be regarded as a failure, but in this case the man confessed next day he never felt any pain, and made a fuss merely because he had not got "gas" to inhale and dre...

Spinal Analgesia

Further trials of lignocaine in spinal anaesthesia.

SOME explanation should be made for the presentation of a paper on subarachnoid spinal anaesthesia at a time when most anaesthetists in Great Britain have abandoned the technique. There are vast areas in the British Commonwealth and in other parts of Asia and Africa where thousands of spinal anaesthetics are administered every year. The main reasons for this are undoubtedly the shortage of anae...

[The potency of lignocaine spinal anaesthesia].

LIGNOCAINE has as yet been very little used for spinal anaesthesia, Adams (1956) alone having reported a series of cases in this country. This is probably because at the present time general anaesthesia is the rule and there is little interest in finding a better spinal analgesic. Having been very impressed by a sample of 5 per cent hyperbaric lignocaine (Xylocaine), it was decided to attempt a...

Planocaine in Spinal Analgesia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?In reply to Mr. Surti's letter in the February issue of the Indian Medical Gazette, we have to say that we have used one per cent planocaine solution for spinal analgesia for the last two years for all operations, both major and minor, with such good results that in not a single instance has there been a failure in anaesthesia. Regarding the use of...