Determination of Low Dose Spinal Anesthesia in Elderly and Critically Ill Patients

Abstract

This research was conducted on 12 old patients of both sexes at the Prince Rashid military hospital between July 2003 and July 2004. Under spinal anaesthetic, an open reduction for a femur fracture neck was performed using only 1ml plane bupivacaine 0.5 percent at the L2-L3 intervertebral regions.