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Types of regional anesthesia are: 1  Axillary Nerve Block â Local anesthetic is injected around the nerve that passes through the axilla (armpit) from the shoulder to the arm to numb the feeling in your arm and hand. Typically used for surgery of the elbow, forearm, wrist, or hand.
This is incorrect. Both spinal and epidural block are subsets of regional anesthetic. Spinal block differs from an epidural block in a number of ways. A smaller needle is used to perform a spinal block than an epidural block. The drugs are injected into the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the spinal cord. In order to do that the needle makes a tiny hole in the dura, which is a tissue encasing the spinal cord and the cerebrospinal fluid.