Sentences with phrase «spinal anaesthetic»

Birnbach said that for a pregnant woman who is known to be a cocaine user and must have a Caesarean, an epidural or spinal anaesthetic is safer.

I've had a spinal anaesthetic (basically the same thing but no tube left in your back).

This meant a spinal anaesthetic.

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Most caesareans are carried out under spinal or epidural anaesthetic.

Normal birth: defined by the Maternity Care Working Party14 as birth without any of: induction of labour; epidural or spinal analgesia; general anaesthetic; episiotomy; forceps, ventouse, or caesarean section

A few other profound anterograde amnesia cases in the literature, cited in the original article, followed on from an acute medical emergency involving the spinal column (e.g. whiplash), so no clear link to anaesthetic effects or tooth extraction that I am aware of.