Talk:Regional anaesthesia

message: This copied from an erroneous VfD
Regional anaesthesia
This article appears to me to be a less comprehensive article, and a duplication of the subject of Local anaesthesia L-Bit 3 July 2005 00:06 (UTC)
*While I don't know the subject, the thing to do if that is indeed the case would be a redirect from one to the other. No VfD required. CDC (talk) 3 July 2005 00:42 (UTC)
*Keep, expand. Different from Local anaesthesia, and if that is a valid topic then this should be also, with cross-reference links both ways. It is important for the article to show that it is not the same as local. --WCFrancis 4 July 2005 08:56 (UTC)
:But, keep in mind I am not in the medical profession or by any means knowledgeable about anaesthesia. Make my vote Weak Keep for now. --WCFrancis 4 July 2005 09:00 (UTC)
::Back to Keep, with restructuring. Looking for definitions makes me think that local anaesthesia is a subset of regional anaesthesia. Therefore, I suggest that the material in Local anaesthesia be moved to Regional anaesthesia and a redirect created from the local anaesthesia article. But, first, we must ask the age-old question - Is there a Doctor in the house?. --WCFrancis 4 July 2005 09:35 (UTC)
Keep Had I done some research before posting here, I would probably not have posted as VfD. Acccording to Oysten's website, local anaesthesia is indeed a subset of regional anaesthesia and so User:WCFrancis; you are correct. However, as Dr Oysten states, ".... many people use the phrase (local anaesthesia) loosely to include regional anaesthesia". That begs the question, if "Local" is more commonly used to refer to the medically correct term "Regional", and I would hazard a guess that "more commonly" should be read as "almost universally", then should "Local" be the main entry? I note also that the original "Regional" article spells anaethesia without the second 'A'. I have no idea if this is American spelling or a typo. So, I am giving up with this VfD and copying this whole section to the two discussion pages - "Regional" and "Local" in the hope that a medical person and/or a person better versed in Wiki procedures can clean up the issue. L-Bit 01:26, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up Required 

message: This article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. For details, please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Regional anaesthesia. -- BD2412 talk 05:42, July 10, 2005 (UTC)
Although I am not an anaesthetist, as an orthopaedic surgeon I recognise the difference between Regional and Local anaesthetics. Local anaesthesia is usually achieved by infiltration of the area with local anaesthetics. Regional anaesthesia extends well beyond the area infiltrated and may affect a whole limb. It is achieved by neural blockade and can be accomplished either by spinal anesthesia, epidural anaesthetic, caudal blocks, nerve block or intravenous (Bier) blocks. It is interesting (to me) that Caudal and Bier blocks don't have wiki entries yet and the nerve block entry has some bizarre statements (done under fluroscopic control!). --Mylesclough 07:03, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  VfD results 

message: A merge tag was placed on this 9 months ago, but no reasons were given that I can see on this page, and no discussion has taken place.  Nerve blocks are one of several modes of regional anesthesia, so separate pages for each, with cross-references, seems reasonable. Therefore, I have removed the merge tag. Terrace4 00:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with nerve block

message: Regional anaesthesia seems to be used as a synonym for local anaesthesia. Unless someone can find some material difference between the terms, the articles should be merged. Kerowyn  Leave a note  07:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New Merge Proposal