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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jun 2004
Case ReportsPressure sore as a complication of labor epidural analgesia.
- Andrej Alfirevic, Maged Argalious, and John E Tetzlaff.
- Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
- Anesth. Analg. 2004 Jun 1; 98 (6): 1783-4, table of contents.
UnlabelledLumbar epidural analgesia has become a common mode of pain control for laboring patients. Side effects, such as hypotension, motor blockade, respiratory depression, dural puncture, and urinary retention, are well described. Although pressure sores have been thought of as a complication limited to elderly, emaciated, unconscious, or bedridden patients, we describe the occurrence of pressure sores in a young and healthy parturient after lumbar epidural analgesia.ImplicationsWe report a pressure sore that resulted from lumbar epidural analgesia for labor.
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