Neuraxial anaesthesia may be administered as an injection of local anaesthetic around the spinal cord either in the back (spinal anaesthetic) or in the area where the nerves from the legs come ...

Objective To examine the associations between neuraxial anaesthesia or general anaesthesia and clinical outcomes, length of hospital stay, and readmission in adults undergoing lower limb ...

1 Why neuraxial delivery? Three condition may justify neuraxial delivery as a therapeutic intervention (1) The therapeutic target, in this case complex aspects of the pain experience, lies at the ...

Incidence of neuraxial haematoma The risk of spinal haematomas is extremely low, but it can have dramatic neurological consequences for patients. The risk in patients receiving enoxaparin for ...

Ignoring the neuraxial interconnectedness and interacting pathomechanics between spinal motion, neuraxial motion, spinal muscle function, proprioception and CSF and vascular dynamics risks ...

While the incidence of severe complications caused by pediatric neuraxial analgesia is low, it is elevated in neonates and infants, with 0.4% vs 0.1% for neuraxial blocks in general, and 1.1% vs 0 ...

Neuraxial analgesia may directly or indirectly influence the progress of labor. Alternatively, the request for analgesia early in labor may be a marker for some other risk factor for cesarean ...

Objective To investigate whether the nature of the decision about receiving neuraxial labour analgesia is associated with breastfeeding initiation success (BIS), defined as exclusive breastfeeding ...