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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 26, 114-116, Copyright © 1979 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Phanton Limb Sensation under Subarachnoid and Epidural Analgesia - A Comparative Clinical Study of Two Hundred Cases

SUDHA KHURANA 1, C. V. SINGH 1, B. CHHABRA 1, and G. L. KAMRA 1

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, Medical College, Rohtak (Haryana), India

Two hundred patients scheduled for various surgical procedures, under subarachnoid and epidural anaesthesia were divided in two groups of 100 for each technique. Subarachnoid analgesia was obtained with five per cent lidocaine, while epidural analgesia was accomplished with 1.5 per cent or 2 per cent lidocaine with adrenaline.

This study shows that phantom sensation is painless and self limiting and that it lasts only for the duration of motor and proprioceptive blockade. It does not require any special treatment except psychotherapy, supplemented if needed by tranquillizers. Patients should be positioned after motor blockade has been established.






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