Current Concepts in Regional Anaesthesia

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• Multiple intercostal blocks by a singe injection? -A clinical and radiological investigation.
• An alternative method of intercostal block. (studies of the use of the jet injector).
• The mixed lumbar — lumbosacral or psoascompartment block.
• Transsacral block.
• Regional block in children.
• Coeliac plexus block.
• Sympathetic dystrophies: i. v. regional Guanethidine versus stellate ganglion blocks.
• Surface landmarks for supraclavicular brachial plexus block.
• Comparative study of the effect of plain and CO2-local anaesthetics in peripheral nerve blocks.
• The extent of blockade following various techniques of brachial plexus block.
• Haemodynamics and pregnancy-induced hypertension.
• Epidural anaesthesia in pregnancy-induced hypertension.
• Epidural anesthesia for the pregnant diabetic.
• Peridural anaesthesia in Caesarean Section.
• Epidural analgesia and high risk vaginal delivery.
• Concepts and perspectives in spinal anesthesia.
• Current concepts and perspectives in epidural anaesthesia.
• Pharmacokinetics in spinal and epidural anaesthesia.
• Effect of adrenaline during epidural and spinal anaesthesia.
• Cardiovascular effects of epidural and spinal block.
• Absorption and disposition of local anaesthetics in relation to regional blood flow changes.
• Mechanisms of pain.
• Regional blockade versus analgesic therapy.
• Analgesic and respiratory effects of subcutaneously and epidurally administered morphine in rats.
• Continuous epidural anaesthesias advantages and disadvantages.
• The endocrine-metabolic response to postoperative pain.