Key result
Spinal anaesthesia is associated with rare but significant neurological complications, which can largely be prevented through detailed preoperative evaluation and adherence to routine guidelines.
Why the study?
What are the risk factors, clinical findings, and preventive measures for neurological complications associated with spinal anaesthesia?
What are the risk factors, clinical findings, and preventive measures for neurological complications associated with spinal anaesthesia?
Neurological complications of spinal anaesthesia are rare but can be severe, emphasizing the need for careful preoperative evaluation and adherence to guidelines to prevent them.
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Reinforces preoperative evaluation before spinal anaesthesia; leaves open the preventable proportion in contemporary cohorts.
Spinal anaesthesia is widely performed for lower abdominal, inguinal, and lower extremity operations in routine practice, with a low complication rate. Neurological deficits are rare but significant complications of spinal anaesthesia. These complications have a wide spectrum varying from mild lumbar pain to serious paraplegia, and almost all time anesthesiologists are held responsible for this. However, most of these complications can be prevented by some precautions such as detailed preoperative evaluation of the patients, better anatomic and pharmacologic knowledge, adequate technical support, compliance with routine guidelines of the procedure, and close postoperative monitoring. In this review, the definitions, risk factors, clinical findings, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, and preventive factors of the neurological complications associated with spinal anaesthesia were aimed to discuss with the relevant literature.
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Yeliz Kılıç (2016) conducted a review in Neurological complications of spinal anaesthesia. Spinal anaesthesia was evaluated. Spinal anaesthesia is associated with rare but significant neurological complications, which can largely be prevented through detailed preoperative evaluation and adherence to routine guidelines.
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