Prolonged hemidiaphragmatic paralysis following interscalene brachial plexus block

Kode R Ediale¹, Chang R Myung, George G Neuman

¹Department of Anesthesiology, St. Vincents Hospital and Medical Center of New York, New York, NY 10011, USA. kediale@svcmcny.org

|December 22, 2004

Abstract:

We present a case of persistent phrenic nerve paralysis after a successful interscalene brachial plexus block. In addition, there was no observed diaphragmatic stimulation, and the patient underwent an uneventful early postoperative period. Warning signs of a complication were either missed or absent until several days after discharge from the ambulatory surgical unit.

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