Alsharif Thamer H, Alanazi Abdulkarim T, Deif Ahmed, Aboueleneein Hesham
School of Medicine, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, IRL.
Department of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, SAU.
Cureus. 2023 May 10;15(5):e38822. doi: 10.7759/cureus.38822. eCollection 2023 May.
Spinal anesthesia is the most common mode of anesthesia utilized during caesarian sections worldwide. Despite its many advantages over general anesthesia in the pregnant cohort, uncommon and even catastrophic complications could occur due to patient-related, equipment-related, and procedure-related complications. One such uncommon event of a broken spinal needle during failed spinal anesthesia for a caesarian section and subsequent successful management is described here.
脊髓麻醉是全球剖宫产手术中最常用的麻醉方式。尽管在孕妇群体中,它相对于全身麻醉有诸多优势,但由于患者相关、设备相关和操作相关的并发症,仍可能发生罕见甚至灾难性的并发症。本文描述了一例剖宫产脊髓麻醉失败时脊髓穿刺针折断,随后成功处理的罕见事件。