Local anaesthesia for venous cannulation and arterial blood gas sampling: are doctors using it?
Daniel M Sado BM BSc 1Charles D Deakin MD FRCA 2
1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Castle Lane
East, Bournemouth BH7 7DW 2 Shackleton Department of Anaesthetics, Southampton General Hospital NHS Trust,
Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
Figure 1.Percentages of doctors using local anaesthesia for venous cannulation,
arterial blood gas sampling and arterial cannulation. Physicians;
anaesthetists; surgeons