Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Pneumoencephaly Developing after Epidural Oxygen-ozone Mixture Therapy

Pain treatment can comprise a combination of pharmacological, interventional, surgical, physical, psycological methods. Interventional procedures, particularly minimally invasive percutaneous therapies, have been widely used in recent years. Corticosteroid, hyperbaric saline or oxygen-ozone therapy is a safe procedure for patients in whom pain cannot be relieved by epidural adhesiolysis or other treatments. Complication related to oxygen-ozone therapy have been reported rarely in lumbar sciatalgia. Herein, we present a patient who developed cardiopulmonary arrest and pneumoencephaly as a rare but life-threatening complication of oxygen-ozone therapy, for epidural lysis, applied to the epidural space due to low back pain.