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Loss of consciousness following spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section
Y K Chan1, R Gopinathan, R Rajendram
1Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
British Journal of Anaesthesia
|December 5, 2000
Abstract:
A healthy parturient under spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean section lost consciousness for an hour, 20 min after the intrathecal injection of 2 ml of 0.5% heavy bupivacaine. The patient was haemodynamically stable before losing consciousness. The differential diagnosis is discussed.