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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jan 1999
Case ReportsSpinal anaesthesia and meningitis in former preterm infants: cause-effect?
- G Luz, H Büchele, P Innerhofer, and H Maurer.
- Department of Anaesthesia, The Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Austria.
- Paediatr Anaesth. 1999 Jan 1; 9 (3): 262-4.
AbstractMeningitis associated with spinal anaesthesia is a rare but well-known complication. We report on a case of fatal bacterial meningitis following spinal anaesthesia in a former preterm infant. The aetiology of this meningitis could not be established. Former preterm infants represent a high-risk population because of their susceptibility to group B streptococcal meningitis at this age as documented in a second case. Therefore we discuss whether meningitis was consequential or coincidental with spinal anaesthesia and could have been prevented by more comprehensive preoperative laboratory screening or prophylactic antibiotics.
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