Inadvertent epidural infusion of paracetamol in an elderly patient

• Authors: Marius Dehne
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A 76 year old patient underwent a laparoscopic rectal resection performed under thoracic epidural anaesthesia and general anaesthesia. He was inadvertently given 1 g of paracetamol epidural and reported a position-independent holocephalic headache one day later. A severe nausea and vomiting lead to a gastrointestinal bleeding. The last neurological examination after 3 months revealed no nausea, no headaches and no sensory disturbances.

Keywords

EN

Paracetamol; Epidural application; Inadvertent

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 595-597

Dates

published

1 - 10 - 2011

online

9 - 8 - 2011

Contributors

author

Marius Dehne

• Department for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, Verbundkrankenhaus Bernkastel/Wittlich Koblenzer Str. 91, 54516, Wittlich, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-011-0066-5