Anesthesia Key

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   It is the use of electric energy in the vicinity of the spinal cord. The leads are placed in the…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   High-frequency electric current has been in use for a long time for treating pain. The nerves are coagulated by passing…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   It is the painful involvement of cervical spinal nerve roots. It presents with pain in the neck radiating to the…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   It is a mix of symptoms with pain in the neck, head, shoulder and upper extremity. The pain does not…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   It is a neuropathy which presents with pain, numbness and paraesthesias in the distribution of sciatic nerve. Sciatic nerve is…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   The intervertebral disc can cause pain because of intrinsic degenerative process or compression producing radicular symptoms. It is responsible for…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   The sacroiliac joint is a diarthrodial joint (synovial). It is the largest axial joint in the body and is formed…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   It is radicular pain and/or radiculopathy because of narrowing of the spinal canal and compression of the nerve roots. It…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   Lumbar zygapophyseal joints are synovial joints with a fibrous capsule. Each joint has superior and inferior articular processes. The medial…

(1) Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK   It is a disorder of the spinal nerve roots presenting as pain in lumbar pattern. Radicular pain in association with…