• A&A practice · Oct 2021

    Case Reports

    Diagnosis and Management of a Retained Local Anesthetic Needle Fragment in a Patient Who Underwent Scheduled Elective Cesarean Delivery: A Case Report.

    • Kevin Black, G Andrew Wright, Christopher Birkholtz, Bradley Dollar, and Michael P Hofkamp.
    • From the Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, Texas.
    • A A Pract. 2021 Oct 25; 15 (10): e01538.

    AbstractCesarean deliveries are often performed with a neuraxial anesthetic technique. Fracture of needles used for local anesthetic infiltration is rare. During subcutaneous infiltration of local anesthetic for a combined spinal epidural (CSE) anesthetic technique performed for elective cesarean delivery, a fragment from a fractured 27-gauge local anesthetic needle was retained in the lumbar subcutaneous tissue. CSE anesthesia was then successfully performed at a different spinal interspace, and the patient had an uneventful cesarean delivery. The patient had the needle fragment removed on the first postoperative day by an interventional radiologist who used fluoroscopy to identify the needle location.Copyright © 2021 International Anesthesia Research Society.

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