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Anaesthetic procedures

Written by Paul B. at 18 Jan 2003 12:16:56:

As an answer to: Re: Surgical procedures including dorsal slit written by Anonymous Liberated at 18 Jan 2003 09:29:30:

> There's a lump on lumbar section of spine. I guess that's where they did their thing. From the size of it, around 1cm, I figured the needle is not the small kind.

The needle is certainly quite thin to be sure, but there is a little bit of poking and probing about with it to find the right place (as I said, somewhat less poking and fiddling for a spinal than an epidural), so that may provoke a bit of bleeding.

So if there's a lump, it will generally be due to a bruise (haematoma) from said "probing". Most of the guys use a bigger needle first to make a hole in the skin so the fine one isn't blunted by going through the skin.

"Horrific"? Well, I suppose if you get upset by such things!


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