• A & A case reports · Oct 2015

    Case Reports

    Unilateral Spinal Anesthesia Experience in a Supercentenarian.

    • Fadime Tosun, Metehan Ozen, Cihad Tatar, and Huseyin Alakus.
    • From the *Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Besni State Hospital, Adiyaman, Turkey; †Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Besni State Hospital, Adiyaman, Turkey; and ‡Department of General Surgery, Besni State Hospital, Adiyaman, Turkey.
    • A A Case Rep. 2015 Oct 1; 5 (7): 117-8.

    AbstractImprovement of living and socioeconomic conditions, developments, and innovations in medicine and technology has prolonged of life expectancy. We provided spinal anesthesia for a 111-year-old woman requiring internal fixation of a fractured femur. The operation lasted 75 minutes. After surgery, the patient was monitored in the intensive care unit overnight. The patient was discharged from the intensive care unit after 24-hour monitoring without any complications. She was discharged from the hospital on postoperative day 2.

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