Open AccessStraight versus flex back: Does it matter in spinal anaesthesia?
Author(s) -
Binay Kumar Biswas,
Bikash Agarwal,
B Bhattarai,
Subhasish Dey,
P Bhattacharyya
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.98772
Subject(s) - medicine , spinal deformity , back pain , spinal anesthesia , surgery , deformity , alternative medicine , pathology
It is sometimes difficult for our patients to acquire recommended flexion of their back to perform subarachnoid block upon them. The aim of this study was to find out the degree of procedural success and patient preference when subarachnoid blocks were performed on patients with suboptimal flexion of the back.