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It would be impossible for me to review even superficially the world literature on this subject within the time allotted for this paper. I intend, therefore, to refer only to our own experience, which is of more than 19,000 epidurals given in an Obstetric Unit. All of these have been continuous lumbar epidurals — none has been a single shot. All injections have been made through a bacterial filter. The test dose has always been 2 ml lignocaine plain (0.5% or 1.0%). Except for brief studies with procaine and etidocaine, the local anaesthetic has invariably been bupivacaine (0.25% or 0.5%, and occasionally 0.375%) and since 1973 it has always been the plain solution.
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Crawford, J.S. (1984). Complications of Epidural Anesthesia in Obstetrics. In: Wüst, H.J., Zindler, M., d’Arcy Stanton-Hicks, M. (eds) Neue Aspekte in der Regionalanaesthesie 3. Anaesthesiologie und Intensivmedizin Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, vol 158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69453-0_9
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