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Roulhac D. Toledano and Marc Van de Velde*

*The authors would like to thank Michael A. Maloney, MB, BAO, ChB, for his help with the tables and figures.

Clinical indications for epidural anesthesia and analgesia have expanded significantly over the past several decades. Epidural analgesia is often used to supplement general anesthesia (GA) for surgical procedures in patients of all ages with moderate-to severe comorbid disease; provide analgesia in the intraoperative, postoperative, peripartum[2], and end-of-life settings; and can be used as the primary anesthetic for surgeries from the mediastinum to the lower extremities. In addition, epidural techniques are used incre...