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November 21, 2009 | 2:12 pm | Medical videos | 2 Comments
Level of Block
Operations
Indications:
- Abdominal & vaginal hysterectomies
- Laparoscopy Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomies (LAVH) combined with general anaesthesia
- Caesarean sections
- Hernia (inguinal or epigastric)
- Piles fistulae & fissures
- orthopaedic surgeries on the pelvis, femur, tibia and the ankle
- nephrectomy
- cholecystectomies
- trauma surgery on the lower limbs, especially if the patient is full-stomach
- Open tubectomies
- 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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Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!
Have you ever considered adding more videos to your blog posts to keep the readers more entertained? I mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I’m more of a visual learner.