Spine surgery under epidural anesthesia, a safe option for patients who cannot easily undergo general anesthesia.
1 hour
3~4cm
Local anesthesia
The next day
Discharge after 5 days
Day after stitch removal
Epidural anesthesia safely blocks only the pain nerves of the area to be operated on, and a sedative is then used so that the spine surgery is performed while the patient sleeps. Because only part of the body is anesthetized, patients who cannot easily undergo general anesthesia, or who are worried about it, can also have spine surgery safely and comfortably.
Widely used for painless childbirth and for reducing pain after surgery, it delivers the anesthetic into the space outside the dura, the membrane surrounding the spinal nerves, without piercing it. It is more demanding and complex than general or spinal anesthesia, so it requires the fine skills of an experienced medical team.
