What is lumbar anesthesia in anesthesia?
Dec 13, 2022
"Lumbar anesthesia" is subarachnoid anesthesia, the first floor is said to be lumbar anesthesia, obviously is wrong, because in the waist can also play epidural anesthesia, spinal nerve block and so on...
Local anesthetics are injected into the subarachnoid space, usually the second and third lumbar vertebrae or the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae.
Because there's no spinal cord in this space,
The level of anesthesia is then determined by the level of the flow of the injected drug in the subarachnoid space.
The term lumbar anesthesia is not a standard term, should be accurately called subarachnoid anesthesia or spinal anesthesia.
Anesthesia is more painful, mainly because of the patient's fear, the pain degree and general local anesthesia is similar,
First, a local anesthetic injection, then a specialized puncture needle for the lumbar anesthetic,
