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Spinal Anaesthesia Procedure and Video

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Operations

Indications:

  1. Abdominal & vaginal hysterectomies
  2. Laparoscopy Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomies (LAVH) combined with general anaesthesia
  3. Caesarean sections
  4. Hernia (inguinal or epigastric)
  5. Piles fistulae & fissures
  6. orthopaedic surgeries on the pelvis, femur, tibia and the ankle
  7. nephrectomy
  8. cholecystectomies
  9. trauma surgery on the lower limbs, especially if the patient is full-stomach
  10. Open tubectomies
  11. Trans-urethral resection of prostate

Complications

  • * Spinal shock.
  • * Cauda equina injury.
  • * Cardiac arrest.
  • * Hypothermia.
  • * Broken needle.
  • * Bleeding resulting in hematoma, with or without subsequent neurological sequelae due to compression of the spinal nerves
  • * Infection: immediate within six hours of the spinl anaesthetic manifesting as meningism or meningitis or late, at the site of injection, in the form of pus discharge, due to improper sterilization of the LP set.
  • * PDPH:post dural puncture head ache or post spinal head ache

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