Talk:Spinal anaesthesia

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Analgesia is the correct name, as anaesthesia includes loss of consciousness.--TheEgyptian 17:15, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid you are quite wrong. "General anaesthesia" does indeed require loss of consciousness, but local and regional anaesthesia do not. The correct title for this article should be Spinal anaesthesia. Preacherdoc (talk) 18:49, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kz0190. Peer reviewers: Cwwweeden.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 10:00, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Current usage of this technique is waning in the developed world...[edit]

Not sure this is true. Certainly spinal anaesthesia became much less popular in the UK after Woolley & Roe, but since the late 80s it has become established as the modal form of anaesthesia for Caesarian section, displacing epidural anaesthesia. I think it is still under-used, for a variety of reasons - plenty of scope for wider application of a safe and effective technique.Moletrouser (talk) 19:04, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Incidence of failed intubation in obstetrics[edit]

I think spinal vs general for Caesarean is primarily in order to have Mom awake for bonding with her baby as soon as possible after delivery. The justification of providing spinal anesthesia for Caesarean based on a high rate of failure of intubation seems anachronistic to me, based on data before the advent and widespread use of indirect visualization (Glidescope) techniques. In their review, Rucklidge et al. state that the widely quoted failure rate is probably an over-estimate:

"The incidence of failed obstetric intubation is widely reported to be around 1:300. It has been suggested that failure rate may be associated with the frequency with which general anaesthesia is provided for Caesarean section within different institutions. A recent retrospective audit from the UK found no cases of failed intubation in 3430 general anaesthetics for Caesarean section and the authors partly attributed this low incidence to the higher than average rate of obstetric general anaesthesia at their hospital resulting in greater experience of the technique." Matthew Rucklidge, Claire Hinton; Difficult and failed intubation in obstetrics, Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1 April 2012, Pages 86–91. Tomelwood (talk) 21:39, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Medicine Student Workplan[edit]

Greetings: Hi, this is Kai Zhang, a medical student from the UCF College of Medicine. I will be working to edit this article as part of the WikiMedicine elective.

Intro- I will expand on the intro, adding information about and giving a summary of the highlights of the different sections

Medical uses- I will update the current indications for the use spinal anesthesia. I will also discuss and update some the contraindications for the procedure and alternative methods

Risks and complications- I will expand on the major and common complications of spinal anesthesia and discuss approaches for handling these complications

Technique- I will expand on the technique and incorporate some basic anatomy and discuss different patient positioning

In reply to all of your work so far:

All of the work you have done is great! The article is very relevant, neutral, representing every viewpoint, and containing many appropriate and reliable sources.

It seems as though the introduction does its role, and you have adequately expanded the medical uses portion to include indications. According to WikiProject guidelines, you might consider changing the name to "Indications" or adding a specific indication subsection should you see fit.

The editing on the "Risks and complications" is very thorough and expansive. You might consider adding a couple more sources or citing the sources that you used in creating this section.

The expansion of the technique section to include sections on "Anatomy" and "Positioning" was a good idea. It correlates with the WikiProject guidelines and provides applicable information. Similarly to the "Risks and complications" section, you might consider adding more sources or citing sources that you believe to be applicable for these sections.

Overall, great job and continue the good work!

Cwwweeden (talk) 01:35, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

English image[edit]

Is there any chance that "File:Prinzip der Spinalanaesthesie.png" could have an English translation version? Dogman15 (talk) 10:52, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]