• A & A case reports · Nov 2013

    Severe hypotension related to high negative pressure suction drainage on a thoracic epidural drain during multilevel spinal fixation.

    • Anjalee Brahmbhatt, Nicholas D P Hall, and William Pierre Litherland Bradley.
    • From the Departments of *Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine and †Neurosurgery, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
    • A A Case Rep. 2013 Nov 15;1(4):62-3.

    AbstractHypotension or bradycardia or both related to intracranial hypotension after craniotomy has been reported in the literature. However, such reports are uncommon with thoracic epidural drains. We describe a case in which application of high negative pressure suction to a thoracic epidural drain caused a sudden decrease in arterial blood pressure.

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