Anesth Pain Med.
2010 Apr;5(2):115-117.
Persistent neurological deficits after intrathecal administration of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine: A case report
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- 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. tshahm@skku.edu
Abstract
- Persistent neurologic injury is a rare but feared complication of neuroaxial anesthesia. Local anesthetics are believed to be an important cause. A 68-year-old man with an ASA physical status of 2 was scheduled to undergo elective knee arthroplasty. He had no clinical evidence of neurological deficits before the operation. Spinal anesthesia was administered using 10 mg of 0.5% bupivacaine and 20microgram of fentanyl without difficulty or complications during the procedure. On the second postoperative day, the patient complained of bilateral weakness in his lower extremities.
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