Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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We report a case of idiopathic brachial nevralgia of the right shoulder in a 30-year-old female, after caesarean section, under spinal anaesthesia. Two days after surgery, intense cervical pain appeared on the second day, associated with rapid collapse of muscular shoulder belt. Full recovery occurred in four months.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Nov 2002
Case Reports[Severe complications after a translaryngeal tracheotomy].
We report the case of a 71-year-old man receiving anticoagulant treatment because of a mechanical aortic valve. Because of an unsuccessful weaning after abdominal surgery, a translaryngeal tracheostomy was realised without incident. The patient died few days later after a hypoxic cardiac arrest due to a severe haemorrhage after the first recannulation. This case illustrates a severe complication because of the recannulation after a translaryngeal tracheostomy and how cautions one should be before realizing a percutaneous tracheostomy in a patient under anticoagulant treatment.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Nov 2002
Case Reports[Intravenous beta-2-adrenergic agonists for tocolytic therapy in pre-eclampsia: two cases of acute pulmonary edema].
Two cases of pulmonary oedema during beta 2-adrenergic agonist therapy in pre-eclampsia pregnant patients are reported. In our first case, the pulmonary oedema was exceptionally severe, because the patient (twins at 26 SA) had to be intubated and ventilated, but the caesarean section was performed only 6 weeks later. These two clinical observations underline the fact that B2 adrenergic agonist are not indicated for the treatment of preeclampsy. Furthermore they suggest that such patients should be rapidly admitted to intensive care units.
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We report two cases of myocardial infarction, in young HIV positive patients seen in the Emergency Department. These patients were under treatments: for one, an association of nucleosidic inhibitors, and for the other one, the combination of nucleosic analogue inhibitor with a non nucleosic analogue; in the last case, the patient underwent, few months before, a treatment containing a protease inhibitor. ⋯ The diagnosis has been made quickly and allows a coronary angioplasty with a favourable issue. Authors are arguing the characteristics of this cardiac pathology, recently discovered in HIV positive patients, and do insist on the need to think at a coronary heart disease in front of any chest pain symptom even unusual.
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Amniotic fluid embolism is an unpredictable but dramatical complication of pregnancy that occurs when amniotic fluid enter into the maternal circulation. The classical clinical feature is acute respiratory distress, circulatory distress, seizures and coagulopathy. However there is no routine laboratory diagnosis, so that is a diagnosis of exclusion. ⋯ An haemostatic hysterectomy was required. The patient survived without any sequelae. Neurological outcome of the child is still reserved.