Does Cough Increase the Spread of Subarachnoid Anesthesia?

1 July 1979

journal article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesia & Analgesia

Vol. 58 (4) , 306???308-8
https://doi.org/10.1213/00000539-197907000-00009

Abstract

Two matched groups of eight patients were given hyperbaric tetracaine (12 mg) intrathecally. One group was instructed to cough vigorously three times after injection. The mean upper level of analgesia by pinscratch technique was the sixth thoracic dermatome in both groups. We conclude that three vigorous coughs do not influence the spread of spinal anesthesia.

Keywords

COUGHS
SPREAD
PINSCRATCH TECHNIQUE
COUGH INCREASE
EIGHT PATIENTS
SPINAL ANESTHESIA
MATCHED GROUPS
HYPERBARIC TETRACAINE
THORACIC DERMATOME

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