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Apnea during spinal anesthesia in an unsedated patient with central sleep apnea syndrome
1Department of Anesthesiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya City, 663-8501, Japan.
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
|July 4, 2001
We describe a case of apnea during spinal anesthesia in an unsedated patient with central sleep apnea syndrome. When spinal anesthesia is planned for a patient who is suspected of having this syndrome, apnea may be induced, even if no sedative was administered and the level of anesthesia is only moderate.
We describe a case of apnea during spinal anesthesia in an unsedated patient with central sleep apnea syndrome. When spinal anesthesia is planned for a patient who is suspected of having this syndrome, apnea may be induced, even if no sedative was administered and the level of anesthesia is only moderate.