Caudal epidural anesthesia during surgery of the lower extremities in traumatology and orthopedics

One hundred and forty operations and eleven manipulations on all the segments of the lower extremities have been performed under caudal epidural anesthesia, i.e. by forming in the caudal canal a dense infiltrate using lidocaine or trimecaine solutions prepared on hypotonic solvent supplemented by microdoses of adrenalin and calcium chloride.