• Paediatric anaesthesia · Jan 2005

    Case Reports

    Total spinal anesthesia during combined general-epidural anesthesia in a 7-year-old child.

    • E Kipnis, E Desoutter, S Dalmas, and B Marciniak.
    • Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation Chirurgicale 2, CHRU Lille, France. kipnise@anesthesia.ucsf.edu
    • Paediatr Anaesth. 2005 Jan 1;15(1):54-7.

    AbstractTotal spinal anesthesia (TSA) is a rare complication of lumbar epidural anesthesia through inadvertent spinal injection of local anesthetics following an undiagnosed dural breach or spinal placement of the catheter. TSA has rarely been reported in children. TSA occurred during epidural anesthesia in a 7-year-old child undergoing abdominal surgery. Recent previous lumbar punctures and intrathecal chemotherapy for Burkitt's lymphoma at the same level may have facilitated dural breach. Epidural anesthesia should not be attempted at the same intervertebral level as prior recent lumbar punctures.

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