Epidural Anesthesia in Aortofemoral Arteriography

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Abstract
Experience with a well-established regional anesthetic technique, i.e., epidural anesthesia for alleviating pain during aortofemoral arteriography is described. Of 59 patients, 51 experienced no subjective or objective evidence of pain, while 8 patients subjectively reported mild burning pain during injection of contrast. Apart from patient satisfaction, important additional benefits of epidural anesthesia were excellent filling of both distal small arteries and collateral vessels around obstructing arterial lesions. Complications were few and insignificant. Epidural anesthesia is a safe procedure that eliminates pain, and gives better quality radiographs.