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Successful Management of a Broken Spinal Needle During Difficult Spinal Anesthesia: A Case Report

Spinal anesthesia is the most common mode of anesthesia utilized during caesarian sections worldwide. Despite its many advantages over general anesthesia in the pregnant cohort, uncommon and even catastrophic complications could occur due to patient-related, equipment-related, and procedure-related...

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Autores principales: Alsharif, Thamer H, Alanazi, Abdulkarim T, Deif, Ahmed, Aboueleneein, Hesham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10251730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303359
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38822
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author Alsharif, Thamer H
Alanazi, Abdulkarim T
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description Spinal anesthesia is the most common mode of anesthesia utilized during caesarian sections worldwide. Despite its many advantages over general anesthesia in the pregnant cohort, uncommon and even catastrophic complications could occur due to patient-related, equipment-related, and procedure-related complications. One such uncommon event of a broken spinal needle during failed spinal anesthesia for a caesarian section and subsequent successful management is described here.
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spelling pubmed-102517302023-06-10 Successful Management of a Broken Spinal Needle During Difficult Spinal Anesthesia: A Case Report Alsharif, Thamer H Alanazi, Abdulkarim T Deif, Ahmed Aboueleneein, Hesham Cureus Anesthesiology Spinal anesthesia is the most common mode of anesthesia utilized during caesarian sections worldwide. Despite its many advantages over general anesthesia in the pregnant cohort, uncommon and even catastrophic complications could occur due to patient-related, equipment-related, and procedure-related complications. One such uncommon event of a broken spinal needle during failed spinal anesthesia for a caesarian section and subsequent successful management is described here. Cureus 2023-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10251730/ /pubmed/37303359 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38822 Text en Copyright © 2023, Alsharif et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Successful Management of a Broken Spinal Needle During Difficult Spinal Anesthesia: A Case Report
title Successful Management of a Broken Spinal Needle During Difficult Spinal Anesthesia: A Case Report
title_full Successful Management of a Broken Spinal Needle During Difficult Spinal Anesthesia: A Case Report
title_fullStr Successful Management of a Broken Spinal Needle During Difficult Spinal Anesthesia: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Successful Management of a Broken Spinal Needle During Difficult Spinal Anesthesia: A Case Report
title_short Successful Management of a Broken Spinal Needle During Difficult Spinal Anesthesia: A Case Report
title_sort successful management of a broken spinal needle during difficult spinal anesthesia: a case report
topic Anesthesiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10251730/
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