Meningitis after Spinal Analgesia

[Meningitis after combined spinal-epidural analgesia for labor: case report].

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Meningitis is a serious complication, although rare in regional anesthesia. This report aimed at presenting a case which evolved to meningitis after combined labor spinal-epidural analgesia. CASE REPORT Laboring patient, 25 years old, second gestation and previous c-section. Combined labor spinal-epidural analgesia was induced with double-puncture. Twenty-four hours ...

iatrogenic meningitis after spinal anesthesia

bacterial meningitis after spinal and epidural anesthesia is a very rare but serious complication. we report a case of meningitis developing a number of hours after a spinal block for caesarean section. no organism was grown but the csf pattern was suggestive of bacterial meningitis. severe neurological sequelae were present after three months of hospitalization. meningitis is a serious complic...

Staphylococcus aureus meningitis after short-term epidural analgesia.

SIR-In a report of their experience at a referral center for patients with suspected Lyme disease [1], Burdge and O'Hanlon describe British Columbia as an area that is not known to be endemic for Lyme borreliosis. Recently, however, Borrelia burgdorferi and/or variants ofthe organism have been isolated from ticks and rodents from eight sites widely distributed throughout British Columbia. This ...

Spinal Analgesia

cause was obvious. I failed to get the C. S. fluid to run out rapidly. It came out in very slow drops. I ought to have made a fresh puncture, but wished to try if it were possible to get analgesia under such conditions. Case 17 might be regarded as a failure, but in this case the man confessed next day he never felt any pain, and made a fuss merely because he had not got "gas" to inhale and dre...

Spinal Analgesia