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local anaesthetic

An ANAESTHETIC affecting only part of the body and not affecting consciousness. Local anaesthetics may be applied, usually by injection, directly to the part to be operated upon, or may be applied, at a distance, to the sensory nerves coming from the part (nerve block).
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Taimur Shoaib, who owns La Belle Forme in Glasgow, said that advances in surgical techniques mean many operations can be done under local anaesthetic instead of under general anaesthetic in a hospital.
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Easily identified 'imaging landmarks' formed by the sternocleidomastoid, the prevertebral fascia and the cervical transverse processes were used for the injection of local anaesthetic. The high success rate might have been due to the entrapment of the local anaesthetic in the cervical paravertebral space and in the direct spread of the local anaesthetic injections around the cervical nerve plexus.
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The use of a local anaesthetic as either a bolus injection or a continuous infusion into the paravertebral space to provide analgesia is a long established technique.
Thoracic paravertebral block (PVB) analgesia
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Consultant Mr Ravindra Karsandras, known to his patients at Hexham General Hospital as Mr Ravindra, has carried out 1,000 hernia procedures under local anaesthetic.
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It is removed from the donor through a procedure using a local anaesthetic. Speak to the people at your next blood donation and they will give you more information about it.
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