Pneumorrhachis as a result of epidural anesthesia

Traumatic epidural pneumorrhachis.

DESCRIPTION A 57-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with blunt thoracic and abdominal trauma after being hit by a tree. CT of the thorax and abdomen was performed. Abdominal CT showed a large retroperitoneal haematoma secondary to an injury of celiac trunk; thoracic CT showed a right haemo-pneumothorax, a pneumomediastinum, a large basal lung contusion, a small dorsal right s...

Symptomatic Epidural Pneumorrhachis : A Rare Entity

Pneumorrhachis, which involves the entrapment of air or gas within the spinal canal, is a rare clinical entity, and the pathogenesis and etiologies of this uncommon entity are various and can present a diagnostic challenge. Usually, pneumorrhachis represents an asymptomatic epiphenomenon but it can produce symptoms associated with its underlying pathology. Here, we report a rare case of symptom...

Spinal anesthesia and not pneumorrhachis as cause for temporary paraplegia.

I wish to offer an alternative theory for the temporary paraplegia referenced in the letter to the editor rather than that of air entrapment. (Dalmau-Carola J. An old complication of a new technique: Pneumorrhachis from caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency. Pain Physician: November/December 2014; 17:E783-E806). A 70-year-old woman with chronic lower back pain radiating to the left lower extrem...

[YouTube as an information source of spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia and combined spinal and epidural anesthesia].

INTRODUCTION Social media as YouTube have become a part of daily life and many studies evaluated health-related YouTube videos. Our aim was to evaluate videos available on YouTube for the conformity to textbook information and their sufficiency as a source for patient information. MATERIAL AND METHOD A search of the YouTube website was performed using the keywords "spinal anesthesia, epidural...

Preliminary comparison of lidocaine and xylazine as caudal epidural anesthesia for embryo collection in cows