Low Spinal Anaesthesia for Caesarian Section

Abstract

Often relatively inexperienced people anaesthetize women for the commonest major operation in the developing world, the Caesarian section. Low spinal anaesthesia reduces the risk of aspiration of gastric contents and improves bonding. A technique of Low,Spinal is described and the evaluation of 100 consecutive anaesthetic events. Ninety seven produced excellent surgical conditions. Eighty seven patients needed no additional analgesia. One hundred and eight babies had the following Apgar score, 90,5%, 10 at birth; 93%, 10 at 2 minutes and the last scored at 10 at 1 minute all but 1,10 to 2 minutes and the last scored 10 at 6 minutes. Ninety nine percent of patients were prepared to have another spinal anaestltetic.