What are the side effects of spinal anesthesia?

Spinal diseases are difficult to treat because the spine is a very complex tissue. It is difficult to eliminate the disease factors inside the spine through external treatments, except for using surgery. However, surgery requires anesthesia. What are the side effects of spinal anesthesia? Let’s take a look at the explanation below, I hope everyone can understand this issue.

Western medicine is popular now, and Western medicine has many surgical treatments, so anesthetics are generally used. Sometimes, because the operation process is relatively long and the pain is relatively severe, spinal anesthesia will be performed, so that the whole body can be operated without feeling. However, because of spinal anesthesia, there will be some symptoms after the operation. This is mainly because the spine controls too many human activities and is very important. Therefore, when doing spinal anesthesia, you must understand clearly whether it is necessary to do it. If spinal anesthesia can be avoided, try not to use it. The method of injecting local anesthetics into the subarachnoid space to act on the spinal nerve roots to produce anesthetic effects in the corresponding parts is called spinal anesthesia, commonly known as subarachnoid block, or spinal anesthesia for short. After the local anesthetic is injected into the subarachnoid space, the order, timing and range of the blockade will vary due to the different thicknesses of the nerves. Impact on respiration: During low spinal anesthesia, there is no effect on gas exchange. When the plane rises to the chest, the intercostal muscles gradually become paralyzed. For general patients, respiratory function will not be affected due to diaphragm compensation. However, it will have a serious impact on those with poor respiratory reserve (obese, weak people). Paralysis of the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles can make the patient cough weakly.

Possible sequelae of spinal anesthesia include urinary retention, nerve damage, infection, etc., but they are rare; the most common is headache after dural puncture (which can be prevented by lying flat for 24 hours after anesthesia). Our anesthesiologists will check on the patients 1-2 days after the operation to help them solve various complications after anesthesia.

During spinal anesthesia, renal perfusion may be increased due to renal vasodilation. If the anesthesia is not properly managed, short-term hypotension may reduce liver and kidney perfusion. Because spinal anesthesia involves too many uncertainties, a comprehensive examination of the patient is performed during spinal anesthesia, and there are therefore specialized anesthesiologists. Therefore, you must maintain your own mentality during anesthesia, and Party B will have an impact on the anesthesiologist. If sequelae do occur later, timely treatment should be sought to prevent them from worsening.