Meningitis following continuous caudal anesthesia
Autor: | W. W. Brown |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Signs and symptoms Anesthesia Spinal Anesthesiology Pregnancy medicine Anesthesia Obstetrical Humans Anesthesia Meningitis Premature labor business.industry Anesthesia complication Meninges Obstetrics and Gynecology General Medicine medicine.disease Caudal Anesthesia Surgery Obstetrics Catheter Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Gynecology Female business Anesthesia Caudal |
Zdroj: | American journal of obstetrics and gynecology. 53(4) |
ISSN: | 0002-9378 |
Popis: | Clinical signs and symptoms of acute meningitis developed twenty-four hours after cessation of caudal anesthesia continued for nearly six hours in a previously normal gravida iii in premature labor. No evidence of infectious focus could be demonstrated elsewhere in the body. The spinal fluid of three selected normal patients, each carried for more than six hours on continuous caudal anesthesia, was grossly and microscopically normal. This suggests that neither metycaine nor the plastic catheter was irritating to the meninges of these three patients. This is one of the few, and perhaps the second, case of meningitis reported following continuous caudal anesthesia. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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