Learning Outcomes

At the end of this session, the students will able to:

• Define correctly all of the key words printed in bold.
• Identify the main parts and supporting structures of vertebral column.
• Describe the spinal cord and spinal nerves with their surrounding structure
• Explain the cerebro spinal fluid in relation with spinal anesthetic agents
• Use dermatome to identify the level of anesthetics
• Explain the local anesthetics used in spinal anesthetic
• Explain the essential characteristics of local anesthetics
• Describe the factors that affect local anesthetic activity
• Identify the drugs that interact with local anesthetic
• Manage toxicity of local anesthetics correctly
• Explain the dose of local anesthetics
• Describe the factors that affect local anesthetics