Anesthesia

The practice of regional anesthesia, and in particular, peripheral anesthesia is on the rise. This use is driven by the interplay of many factors including rising numbers of surgical procedures and a growing body of clinical evidence purporting its advantages over general anesthesia. Other reasons are an expanding number of applications for these procedures and the drive to speed up patient turnover in hospitals, since recovery time after regional anesthesia is usually shorter than after general anesthesia.1

Intravenous Regional Anesthesia (IRAT) is especially difficult to perform in operations of the lower limbs, but also in injuries to the upper limbs. As an alternative method, it was found that the Intraosseous Regional Anesthesia (IORA) causes the anesthetic material to disperse into the tissues, similarly to intravenous perfusion. Using the BIG- Bone Injection Gun – the world’s first automatic IO device – is a fast, accurate and reliable way to infuse fluids into spongeous bone in the epiphysis or the metaphysis of the upper and lower limbs in adults, and to establish regional anesthesia.

1 Frost & Sullivan - Strategic Analysis of the European Regional Anesthesia Kits Market.

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