J Korean Pain Soc.  1997 Nov;10(2):291-295.

Neurologic Complications following Epidural Analgesia

• Moon DE
• Shim JY
• Lim YG
• Kim YS
• Kim BC
• Kim SN

Abstract

Technique of epidural analgesia is generally regarded a safe procedures which is widely applied in postoperative and chronic pain control. Incidence of neurologic complications following epidural analgesia are rare; however, increasing number of published reports describing transient or permanent neurologic complicatians following such procedures have been appearing more frequently. We report two cases of neurologic complications following epidural analgesia as we believe it is important to draw the attention of other anesthesiologist to the possibility of existence of other com- plications of significant medicolegal consequences.

Keyword

Anesthetic teclmiques, tegional, epidural; Complications, neurologic

MeSH Terms

Analgesia, Epidural*
Chronic Pain
Incidence