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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2009 102(3):431; doi:10.1093/bja/aen394
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2009. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Spinal anaesthesia for elective surgery

R. Sumaiya

Nuneaton, UK

E-mail: rupin.sumaiya@geh.nhs.uk

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Editor—As someone who regularly performs spinal anaesthesia in orthopaedic and obstetric patients, I read with particular interest the recent article by Luck and colleagues.1 I was disappointed that in this era of litigiousness, the authors still routinely insert a spinal needle at the second lumbar interspace. We know from previous studies that even experienced anaesthetists are actually one space . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J. F. Luck*, P. D. W. Fettes and J. A. W. Wildsmith

Dundee, UK

* E-mail: johnfluck@gmail.com


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