Case of Neurological Complication Following Subarachnoid Block in a Patient with Unsuspected Coagulopathy

Subarachnoid block (SAB) is an extensively used regional anesthesia technique for many surgeries. Neurological complications are rare following spinal anesthesia. We are reporting neurological complication in a patient the following appendectomy under SAB with unsuspected coagulopathy. The complicat...

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Autores principales: Mathur, Arun, Nagappa, C. Venkatesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5341648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28298799
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.194563
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description Subarachnoid block (SAB) is an extensively used regional anesthesia technique for many surgeries. Neurological complications are rare following spinal anesthesia. We are reporting neurological complication in a patient the following appendectomy under SAB with unsuspected coagulopathy. The complication was noticed early and managed conservatively with a high dose of intravenous steroid and improved drastically in a short period.
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spelling pubmed-53416482017-03-15 Case of Neurological Complication Following Subarachnoid Block in a Patient with Unsuspected Coagulopathy Mathur, Arun Nagappa, C. Venkatesh Anesth Essays Res Case Report Subarachnoid block (SAB) is an extensively used regional anesthesia technique for many surgeries. Neurological complications are rare following spinal anesthesia. We are reporting neurological complication in a patient the following appendectomy under SAB with unsuspected coagulopathy. The complication was noticed early and managed conservatively with a high dose of intravenous steroid and improved drastically in a short period. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5341648/ /pubmed/28298799 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.194563 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Anesthesia: Essays and Researches http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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