Brimacombe J R, Caunt J A
Department of Anaesthetics, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.
Anaesthesia. 1990 Feb;45(2):132-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1990.tb14278.x.
A patient with achondroplasia presented for elective Caesarean section under epidural anaesthesia. A block from C5 to S4 developed over 20 minutes after 12 ml plain bupivacaine 0.5%. This case serves to highlight the difficulties of regional anaesthesia in the gravid achondroplastic dwarf.
