• Anaesthesia · Feb 2007

    Case Reports

    Death potentially secondary to sub-Tenon's block.

    • C L Quantock and T Goswami.
    • Eastbourne District General Hospital, Eastbourne, UK. drchrisq@yahoo.co.uk
    • Anaesthesia. 2007 Feb 1; 62 (2): 175-7.

    AbstractAn 82-year-old ASA 2 patient underwent routine sub-Tenon's block for cataract surgery. One minute after injection of the local anaesthetic, the patient had a generalised tonic-clonic seizure and developed refractory ventricular fibrillation; subsequent resuscitation was unsuccessful. With no evidence for intravascular injection, the lack of structural brain abnormalities, and the most striking feature on post mortem examination being severe triple vessel coronary artery disease, it was concluded that this was primarily cardiac in origin; however, the possibility of brainstem anaesthesia should also be considered.

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