Abstract
We conducted a postal survey of 221 anaesthetists in the Oxford region to determine their views and actual clinical practice regarding regional anaesthesia in adult patients undergoing limb surgery, when a combined regional and general anaesthetic was planned. Of the 162 respondents (73.3%), 142 (87.6%) regularly practised regional blocks for limb surgery in adult patients. For all the regional anaesthetic techniques in question, more anaesthetists felt it was safer to perform these blocks before induction of general anaesthesia than after induction. However, their actual practice varied markedly from their views, with more anaesthetists performing these blocks after general anaesthesia. Overall, trainees performed blocks before induction of general anaesthesia more often than consultants (p = 0.047).
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