Spinal anesthesia

Spinal anesthesia

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Published in Marilyn Sue Bogner, Human Error in Medicine, 2018

For regional anesthesia, the anesthetist injects local anesthetics in the region of specific nerves (nerve blocks), or near the spinal cord (epidural or spinal anesthesia). The local anesthetics then numb whole regions of the body, and the patient is monitored by the anesthetist.

Co(II) and Cu(II) coordination polymers: prevention activity on hypotension after spinal anesthesia

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Published in Inorganic and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 2021

Shenyuan Zhou, Sensen Wang, Qiang Li, Shuyuan Zheng, Zhuolin Shu, Junfeng Zhang

Spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia have precise analgesic effects, causing muscle relaxation, and inhibit the stress response caused by surgical trauma stimulation. At the same time, it has characteristics of less physiological interference to important organs such as brain, lung, liver, and kidney and quick recovery after surgery.[1,2] It is a commonly used clinical anesthesia method. However, spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia have an inhibitory effect on hemodynamics. The prominent manifestation is the injection of local anesthetics into the subarachnoid or epidural space.[3] After the blocking effect occurs, it would cause blood pressure drop and hypotension, called hypotension after anesthesia. Therefore, preventing hypotension after intraspinal anesthesia is an important issue related to clinical anesthesia and patient safety.

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