Abstract
Neurological complications—some of them serious—sometimes occur following spinal anesthesia. In the majority of the relatively few cases in which they occur, they are caused by factors which can be obviated.
Rigid adherence to defined safeguards will reduce the incidence of complications and overcome most of the objections to the procedure.
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