Combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for caesarian section - gathering limitations or damping them?
The clinical experience of 100 combined spinal-epidural anesthesias (CSEA), 100 epidural and 50 single-shot spinal blockades for elective cesarean section were reviewed. The CSEA included epidural catheterization following intrathecal administration of 12-15 mg of 0,5% bupivocaine. For spinal and epidural anesthesia standard technique was employed involving 12-15 mg of 0,5% bupivocaine intrathecally or 150 mg 0,75% ropivocaine epidurally. The results suggest that CSEA as have being applied in our work has no additional benefits but more rapid onset of action when compared with epidural anesthesia, and possibility of the post surgery epidural analgesia in contrast of single-shot spinal blockade.