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Does total spinal anaesthesia provide better operating conditions than relaxant general anaesthesia in patients undergoing major intra-abdominal surgery?
Does total spinal anaesthesia provide better operating conditions than relaxant general anaesthesia in patients undergoing major intra-abdominal surgery?
While total spinal anaesthesia provides excellent operating conditions for major intra-abdominal surgery, its inflexibility limits its widespread clinical utility.
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May offer superior conditions in select cases; leaves open adoption of total spinal anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia.
One hundred patients were given total spinal anaesthesia for major intra-abdominal surgery. Operating conditions were excellent, superior to that provided by relaxant general anaesthesia and free from hiccough and other reflex phenomena. However, the technique developed in this study provided anaesthesia which is too inflexible for widespread acceptance at present.
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T. I. Evans (1974) studied this question.
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