Clinical Anesthesia Procedures
Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia - Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia
Section
Spinal anesthesia offers the benefits of rapid onset. Placement of an epidural catheter at the same time offers the advantage of prolonged anesthesia and analgesia for longer procedures or postoperative pain management. This technique often is used in the labor and delivery setting (see Chapter 32).
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Citation
Pino, Richard M., editor. "Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia - Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia." Clinical Anesthesia Procedures, 10th ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2022. Anesthesia Central, anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/ClinicalAnesthesiaProcedures/728264/all/Perioperative_Hemodynamic_Control___Vasodilators__Table_20_4_.
Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia - Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia. In: Pino RMR, ed. Clinical Anesthesia Procedures. Wolters Kluwer; 2022. https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/ClinicalAnesthesiaProcedures/728264/all/Perioperative_Hemodynamic_Control___Vasodilators__Table_20_4_. Accessed July 16, 2025.
Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia - Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia. (2022). In Pino, R. M. (Ed.), Clinical Anesthesia Procedures (10th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/ClinicalAnesthesiaProcedures/728264/all/Perioperative_Hemodynamic_Control___Vasodilators__Table_20_4_
Spinal, Epidural, and Caudal Anesthesia - Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia [Internet]. In: Pino RMR, editors. Clinical Anesthesia Procedures. Wolters Kluwer; 2022. [cited 2025 July 16]. Available from: https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/ClinicalAnesthesiaProcedures/728264/all/Perioperative_Hemodynamic_Control___Vasodilators__Table_20_4_.
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