Anesth Pain Med.
2009 Jan;4(1):15-18.
A case of cardiac arrest following bupivacaine injection for shoulder arthroscopy : A case report
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- 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital, Busan, Korea. nonpain@paran.com
Abstract
- Intra-articular administration of local anesthetics such as bupivacaine can produce short-term postoperative analgesia in patients who are undergoing shoulder arthroscopy. Yet bupivacaine can result in cardiovascular toxicity that can lead to cardiac arrest. We experienced a case of 63-year-old male patient with severe cardiac toxicity that led to ventricular fibrillation 15 minutes after injecting 0.5% bupivacaine into the patient's shoulder joint for shoulder arthroscopy.
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