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Anesteziol Reanimatol · Jul 2007
Review[Cranial nerve damage after neuroaxial methods of anesthesia in puerperas].
- S E Floka and E M Shifman.
- Anesteziol Reanimatol. 2007 Jul 1(4):58-61.
AbstractThe paper describes cranial nerve damage, a rare complication of neuroaxial anesthesia in obstetric care. In the literature, there are summarized data on 17 cases of neurological deficit developing after subarachnoidal or epidural anesthesia in puerperas. The etiological and pathogenetic factors of the above complications may be suggested to be the high disposition of a local anesthetic, arterial hypotension due to neuroaxial anesthetics, the outflow of cerebrospinal fluid after pachymeningeal puncture (including after unintended puncture during epidural anesthesia), and ischemic injury after the blood packing performed to relieve postpuncture headache. Closer consideration of these risk factors seems to reduce the incidence of cranial nerve damage in puerperas.
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