The use of Anesthesia is very common during medical procedures. There are three types of anesthesia, which are general, regional, and local. Epidural and spinal anesthesia are actually similar forms of procedural anesthesia, but they are so different in a number of ways. Epidural anesthesia, also known as an epidural block, which requires the use of a catheter that is to be inserted into the epidural space, while spinal anesthesia, on the other hand, is also known as a spinal block, which uses a single injection into the regions of the spine below the lumbar vertebra two so as to avoid piercing the spinal cord.
The quantity of the anesthetic agent for the epidural block is so very much more than what is actually required for spinal anesthesia. The location for the administration of the epidural block is in the lumbar, cervical, or the thoracic regions of the spine, while the spinal anesthesia can only be administered below L vertebra 2.
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