RT Book, Section
A1 Iserson, Kenneth V.
SR Print(0)
ID 57373226
T1 Chapter 14. Anesthesia—Local and Regional
T2 Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-175497-2
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57373226
RD 2024/04/25
AB When  the  equipment  and  the  experienced  personnel  to  give  deep  sedation  or  general  anesthesia  are  not  available,  local  and  regional  anesthetic  techniques  should  be  used.  As  one  experienced  anesthesiologist  wrote,  "We  must  assume  that  supplies  of  compressed  gases  will  soon  run  out  and  replacements  will  be  unobtainable.  This  leaves  us  with  local  techniques,  spinal  and  epidural  analgesia,  all  of  which  can  be  given  by  the  surgeon  in  the  absence  of  a  trained  anesthetist."1