Spine Surgery under Spinal Anaesthesia

Spinal Anaesthesia in Spinal Surgery

Stapes surgery under local anaesthesia

In the UK, stapes surgery is performed almost universally under general anaesthesia. In 1984 there was consensus that local anaesthesia should be the technique of choice in stapes surgery. Despite reports of successful use of local anaesthesia for middle ear surgery, this is still not widely accepted practice in the UK. We describe the senior author's technique for local anaesthetic stapes sur...

Spinal anaesthesia in a patient with post-spine surgery dural ectasia.

Dural sac ectasia is a very infrequent anatomical abnormality, usually caused by connective tissue diseases, as Marfan syndrome. Very few cases have been described being a consequence of a previous spine surgical procedure. We describe the case of an elderly patient who should be operated on twice due to sub-occlusive colon disease. Surgery was performed under spinal anaesthesia. A dural sac ec...

Anaesthesia for spinal surgery in adults.

The spectrum of spinal surgery in adult life is considerable. Anaesthesia for major spinal surgery, such as spinal stabilization following trauma or neoplastic disease, or for correction of scoliosis, presents a number of challenges. The type of patients who would have been declined surgery 20 yr ago for medical reasons, are now being offered extensive procedures. They commonly have preoperativ...

Is Spinal Anaesthesia Useful in Day Surgery?

58 Vol. 10 No. 2, April-June 2008 Introduction: An increasing number of day-case surgical patients are challenging the presently used methods of anaesthesia:. Surgical anaesthesia should be fast, reliable with rapid recovery and minimal side effects. To compete with modern ambulatory general anaesthesia, knowledge of special spinal anaesthesia techniques is essential. 'Walk-in, walk-out' spinal...