The Importance and Implications of Aseptic Techniques During Regional Anesthesia

nfectious complications may occur with any re-gional anesthetic technique. However, those as-sociated with neuraxial anesthesia and analgesiaare of greatest concern because of their potentiallydevastating sequelae including meningitis, paraly-sis, and even death. Fortunately, the frequency ofsuch complications appears to be relatively low.Aromaa et al.