Regional anaesthesia for caesarean section: a choice of three techniques
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Pervez Sultan; J Campbell
- Source
- British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 70:605-605
- Subject
- Anesthesia, Epidural
medicine.medical_specialty
Cesarean Section
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Regional anaesthesia
General Medicine
Anesthesia, Spinal
Perineum
Surgery
body regions
medicine.anatomical_structure
Dermatome
Pregnancy
Anesthesia
Sacral nerve
Anesthesia, Obstetrical
Humans
Medicine
Female
General anaesthesia
Caesarean section
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1759-7390
1750-8460
Over the last 20 years, there has been a large increase in the proportion of caesarean sections (Brown and Russell, 1995) which are performed under regional rather than general anaesthesia. A bilateral sensory block from the T4 dermatome (nipple level) to the sacral nerve roots (perineum) is necessary.