"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
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sympathectomy will blunt the normal tachycardic response to hypovolemia.
Spinal or epidural analgesia may cause a sympathectomy that will blunt the normal tachycardic response to hypovolemia. OBSTETRIC ANAESTHESIA OUR WAY Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne Author: Dr Philip Popham