A total of 1600 patients were enrolled; 795 were assigned to receive spinal anesthesia and 805 to receive general anesthesia. The mean age was 78 years, and 67.0% of the patients were women.

Under a spinal anesthetic, patients typically require significantly lower amounts of intravenous narcotics, so they emerge from surgery refreshed and alert rather than groggy and wiped out.

Spinal anesthesia to the 6th thoracic dermatome was obtained with Pontocaine and glucose injected through a 22-gauge needle inserted at the 3d–4th lumbar intervertebral space.

There are no differences in the safety or effectiveness of the two most common types of anaesthetic (spinal versus general anaesthesia) in patients undergoing hip fracture surgery, according to the ...

Spinal anaesthesia uses a very thin needle that is placed in the spine where the spinal fluid is located. This space is a few millimetres further inside from the epidural space in the spine.

The patient, 28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago, was able to watch in real time as surgeons removed his old kidney and inserted a new one. Instead of administering general anaesthesia, which is the ...

KKH performs more than 3,500 spinal anaesthesia procedures each year. Clinical trials involving about 200 patients started in 2017, and were funded by grants from the National Health Innovation ...

Patients with failed spinal anesthesia prior to total hip or knee arthroplasty had inferior clinical outcomes compared with patients who had successful spinal anesthesia and similar outcomes vs ...

Regional blocks, such as a spinal anesthetic or epidural, are preferable. However, general anesthesia can be applied quickly in an emergency or if you need a cesarean delivery quickly.