Cargando…
Tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: A case report
RATIONALE: Recent years have witnessed a marked improvement in the safety and accuracy of nerve blocks with the help of ultrasound and other visualization technologies. This study reports a challenging case of a severe complication during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block. PATIENT CONCER...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Wolters Kluwer Health
2019
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6890314/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31770265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000018168 |
_version_ | 1783475587656974336 |
---|---|
author | Lu, Fan Tian, Jie Dong, Jifu Zhang, Kexian |
author_facet | Lu, Fan Tian, Jie Dong, Jifu Zhang, Kexian |
author_sort | Lu, Fan |
collection | PubMed |
description | RATIONALE: Recent years have witnessed a marked improvement in the safety and accuracy of nerve blocks with the help of ultrasound and other visualization technologies. This study reports a challenging case of a severe complication during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 28-year-old male patient with refractory migraine complained episodic pulsatile pain with photophobia, haphalgesia of the scalp for 3 years. INTERVENTIONS: Ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block with 4 ml of 1% lidocaine was administrated. OUTCOMES: A sudden loss of consciousness and tonic–clonic seizure was occurred after negative aspiration and test dose. Further sonographic examination revealed a variation in the left vertebral artery, which remained unrecognized during the needle insertion because of its sliding ability under the differential pressure applied by the probe. LESSONS: Inadvertent intra-arterial injection of a local anesthetic agent could be minimized under the ultrasound guidance with various protective strategies, including the determination of any prior variation, optimizing the block route, maintaining a constant probe pressure, and using saline for the test dosage. This case resulted in the implementation of new protocols of the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block in our department. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6890314 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2019 |
publisher | Wolters Kluwer Health |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-68903142020-01-22 Tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: A case report Lu, Fan Tian, Jie Dong, Jifu Zhang, Kexian Medicine (Baltimore) 3300 RATIONALE: Recent years have witnessed a marked improvement in the safety and accuracy of nerve blocks with the help of ultrasound and other visualization technologies. This study reports a challenging case of a severe complication during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 28-year-old male patient with refractory migraine complained episodic pulsatile pain with photophobia, haphalgesia of the scalp for 3 years. INTERVENTIONS: Ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block with 4 ml of 1% lidocaine was administrated. OUTCOMES: A sudden loss of consciousness and tonic–clonic seizure was occurred after negative aspiration and test dose. Further sonographic examination revealed a variation in the left vertebral artery, which remained unrecognized during the needle insertion because of its sliding ability under the differential pressure applied by the probe. LESSONS: Inadvertent intra-arterial injection of a local anesthetic agent could be minimized under the ultrasound guidance with various protective strategies, including the determination of any prior variation, optimizing the block route, maintaining a constant probe pressure, and using saline for the test dosage. This case resulted in the implementation of new protocols of the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block in our department. Wolters Kluwer Health 2019-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6890314/ /pubmed/31770265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000018168 Text en Copyright © 2019 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
spellingShingle | 3300 Lu, Fan Tian, Jie Dong, Jifu Zhang, Kexian Tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: A case report |
title | Tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: A case report |
title_full | Tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: A case report |
title_fullStr | Tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: A case report |
title_short | Tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: A case report |
title_sort | tonic–clonic seizure during the ultrasound-guided stellate ganglion block because of an injection into an unrecognized variant vertebral artery: a case report |
topic | 3300 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6890314/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31770265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000018168 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT lufan tonicclonicseizureduringtheultrasoundguidedstellateganglionblockbecauseofaninjectionintoanunrecognizedvariantvertebralarteryacasereport AT tianjie tonicclonicseizureduringtheultrasoundguidedstellateganglionblockbecauseofaninjectionintoanunrecognizedvariantvertebralarteryacasereport AT dongjifu tonicclonicseizureduringtheultrasoundguidedstellateganglionblockbecauseofaninjectionintoanunrecognizedvariantvertebralarteryacasereport AT zhangkexian tonicclonicseizureduringtheultrasoundguidedstellateganglionblockbecauseofaninjectionintoanunrecognizedvariantvertebralarteryacasereport |