Neurological complications associated with epidural analgesia in children: A report of 4 cases of ambiguous etiologies

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1365-1370

  Meyer, Mark J ^a   Krane, Elliot J ^b   Goldschneider, Kenneth R ^a   Klein, Norma J ^c  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; BUTORPHANOL; CEFAZOLIN; CHLOROPROCAINE; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; HETASTARCH; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LIDOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ALLODYNIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONUS MEDULLARIS; CYSTOSCOPY; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL LIPOMATOSIS; EPIDURAL SPACE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FLUID THERAPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; INFANT; LEG PAIN; LIPOMATOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; PROPRIOCEPTION; RECOVERY ROOM; SCHOOL CHILD; SOLITARY KIDNEY; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THICKNESS; THORACIC SPINE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROGENITAL SINUS; VAGINOSCOPY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONVALESCENCE; FUNNEL CHEST; LAMINECTOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CHILD; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HUMANS; INFANT; LAMINECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 84870250572     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31826918b6     Document Type: Article

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