After an epidural childbirth, your back may experience short-term soreness especially in the catheter region as it is the place where medication was injected. That is why many women associate long-term or chronic back pain with labor epidural analgesia. The question begging an answer is: Is the...
Back pain after epidural anesthesia with chloroprocaine in volunteers: Preliminary report. Reg Anesth 1991; 16:199-203Stevens RA,Chester WF,Artuso JD,et al.Back pain after epidural anesthesia with chloroprocaine in volunteers: preliminary report. Regional Anesthesia . 1991...
Chloroprocaine has been associated with severe back pain after epidural anesthesia. Factors proposed to contribute to this problem are: 1) the preservative disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), 2) large volumes of chloroprocaine, 3) low pH of chloroprocaine, and 4) local infiltration with...
Epidural abscess with and without associated meningitis after epidural corticosteroid injections for radicular back pain is a rarely reported complication. We report the occurrence of an epidural abscess and meningitis in a 70-year-old man after 2 epidural corticosteroid injections for treatment of acute...
Classically, epidural abscess presents with severe back pain, local tenderness, and fever, progressively worsening to radicular symptoms followed by neurologic deficits.1 Continued vigilance, prompt evaluation, and early intervention are necessary to avoid significant sequelae.2, 3 In immunocompromised ...
Epidural analgesia has become a common procedure to provide excellent pain relief with few complications. Pneumorrhachis and pneumocephalus are rare complications of unintentional dural puncture and injection of air into the subarachnoid or subdural spac
Background: Despite knowledge about compromised host defence in the course of diabetes mellitus and pancreatitis, epidural analgesia (EA) is recommended for pain management during pancreatitis. Case report: We present the case of a diabetic patient with pancreatitis who developed an epidural abscess af...
Relationship of epidural patient-controlled analgesia with postoperative bleeding after unilateral total knee arthroplasty: a propensity score-matching analysis Although epidural patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) to control postoperative pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), the relationship of epidural PCA...
Research and Reports in Urology Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article Original Research Effectiveness of epidural versus alternate analgesia for pain relief after radical prostatectomy and correlation with biochemical recurrence in men with prostate cancer ...
Research and Reports in Urology Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article Original Research Effectiveness of epidural versus alternate analgesia for pain relief after radical prostatectomy and correlation with biochemical recurrence in men with prostate cancer ...