J Korean Pain Soc.
1989 Nov;2(2):203-207.
Unusual Complications from Nerve Blocks used for Pain Control
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- 1Department of Anesthesiolosy, Chonbuk, National University Medical School, Chinju, Korea.
Abstract
- Anesthesiologists are usually responsible for the major works in pain clinics and are often called for many sophisticated nerve blocks in the management of acute or chronic intractable pain. It is, therefore, not uncommon for the anesthesiologists to meet some unexpected and unusual complications during his or her performance. We experienced a case of a pneumothorax following a thoracic intrathecal alcohol block. There was an unusaual and yet unexplainable cephalad spread of alcohol following an injection through the 4th sacral foramen, and a shearing off of the catheter by a Tuohy epidural needle following the epidural catheterization. All these three cases are herein presented.
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