[Loco-regional anesthesia in remote medical units. VI. Anesthesia of lower abdomen and lower limbs: peridural anesthesia (author's transl)].

Peridural anesthesia consists in impregnating by an anesthesic solution, through a lumbal puncture, the nervous radices at their emergence out of the dura mater. The authors detail the technique and its mishaps and accidents, the indications and counter-indications.