Related Experiment Videos
Unintentional epidural injection of 88 μg·kg(-1) of epinephrine
David A August1, Jinghu Sui, Charles J Coté
1Division of Pediatric Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Paediatric Anaesthesia
|August 19, 2014
Abstract:
We report the effects of 88 μg·kg(-1) of epinephrine (1:10,000) injected into the caudal epidural space of a 42-week postconceptual age infant. No long-term neurological or cardiovascular sequelae occurred. Noninvasive cardiac output (CO) monitoring revealed increased CO, contractility, and stroke volume for about an hour, accompanied by a reduction in peripheral vascular resistance and a modest increase in pulse and blood pressure.