Segmental peridural spinal anesthesia

T HE method of anesthesia which will now be described and which was worked out by me has been in use for three years with increasing success. It is intended to produce, as a resuh of a single injection which does not involve the subarachnoid spuce, a compIete, suffrcientIy long and deep anesthesia in any part of the body to enable any surgical intervention to be carried out. By this method the advantages of IocaI anesthesia with its freedom from risk are combined with those of subarachnoid spinal anesthesia with its powerful and satisfactory action. BriefIy described it is a procedure which makes it possibIe to obtain in the upper parts of the body just as exceIIent resuIts as may be had in the region of the sacrococcygea1 plexus after sacra1 extradura1 anesthesia has been performed.