Remote spinal epidural haematoma after spinal anaesthesia presenting with a 'spinal lucid interval'

Spinal or Epidural Haematoma

Cranial subdural haematoma after spinal anaesthesia.

Intracranial subdural haematoma is an exceptionally rare complication of spinal anaesthesia. A 20-yr-old male underwent appendicectomy under partial spinal and subsequent general anaesthesia. A week later, he presented with severe headache and vomiting not responding to bed rest and analgesia. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a small acute subdural haematoma in the right temporo-occipital regi...

Combined Spinal Epidural Anaesthesia

Development in anaesthesia and surgery has improved over all surgical outcome during recent decades. There is still concern about the detrimental effects of operative procedures such as myocaridial infarction, pulmonary complications, thromboembolism, gastrointestinal paralysis, immunosupression etc. that cannot be attributed solely to imperfections in surgical technique. Regional anaesthesia o...

Combined spinal-epidural anaesthesia.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this review is to present the most important recent studies on the clinical use of the combined spinal-epidural technique. RECENT FINDINGS The predominant recent literature on the combined spinal-epidural technique involves its use in obstetrics. A 2004 UK survey showed that the use of the technique is increasing. Studies are presented which show the role of i...

Spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma with spontaneous resolution.

Spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma is of unknown aetiology, but it has been associated with hypertension. Treatment is surgical decompression but three cases of spontaneous recovery have been reported. We report the fourth such recovery in a 68 year old hypertensive woman.