Lumbar hard anesthesia is precisely called lumbar hard joint anesthesia, which is a kind of anesthesia method combining lumbar anesthesia (subarachnoid anesthesia) and epidural anesthesia, and it belongs to intraspinal anesthesia.
1. Definition and indications: Lumbar and hard combined anesthesia combines two anesthesia techniques of lumbar anesthesia and epidural anesthesia, taking the advantage of complementary shortcomings, so that the anesthesia effect is better, and it is generally applicable to the lower abdomen and lower limbs of the surgery.
2. Advantages: In the same puncture point, with the help of “needle within a needle” to complete both lumbar anesthesia and epidural anesthesia operations. This method of anesthesia has less damage to the human body, fast onset time, larger anesthetic range, longer duration, and can provide a long period of postoperative analgesia to reduce the patient’s discomfort.
3. Limitations: This modality is only suitable for surgery on the lower body, and there is also the possibility of complications such as low cranial pressure and headache.
Lumbar rigid anesthesia is a preoperative form of anesthesia. The type of anesthesia to be used preoperatively is usually decided by the doctor in charge and the anesthesiologist.