NEUROLOGIC COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING THE USE OF CONTINUOUS CAUDAL ANESTHESIA
- 1 December 1944
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 52 (6) , 531-533
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1944.02290360103010
Abstract
Numerous investigators have previously demonstrated the value of caudal anesthesia in obstetrics, and the method has been recently modified and popularized by Hingson and Edwards and others. All have agreed that its use should be restricted to the specialist in adequately equipped hospital centers because of the possibility of serious complications. Continued study only will determine its ultimate value for more general use. We have recently had the opportunity of studying 2 cases with complications which have not as yet been encountered in the literature. REPORT OF CASES Case 1. —A woman aged 26 had low forceps delivery of a normal living male infant, with repair of a left lateral episiotomy incision on Oct. 17, 1942. Caudal anesthesia was induced by the ureteral catheter technic, and 960 cc. of a 1.5 per cent solution of procaine hydrochloride was administered, at the rate of 20 cc. per hour. Delivery was slightlyThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: