Two of the most frequently used are spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia ... Another common type of regional anesthesia is a peripheral nerve block, which is produced by injections usually ...
Regional anesthesia includes spinal blocks and epidurals and is often used ... filling trapped air between a lung and the chest wall. Nerve damage can occur, causing temporary or permanent pain.
The anesthetic agents that are infused through the small catheter block spinal nerve roots in the epidural space and the sympathetic nerve fibers adjacent to them. Depending on the location of the ...
Common regional techniques include epidurals, spinal anesthesia and nerve blocks. By activating different pain pathways simultaneously, multimodal approaches aim to enhance pain relief ...