Unexpected bronchospasm during spinal anesthesia
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1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville.
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Asthma and bronchospastic disease are common in patients presenting for anesthesia. Intraoperative bronchospasm can be a life-threatening problem. One approach to these patients is to use regional anesthesia because it is believed that this will reduce the complication rate. Presented here is a case of bronchospasm occurring during regional anesthesia that was unresponsive to beta agonists. The use of atropine in the treatment of bronchospasm also is discussed.