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Meera N Gonzalez1, Anish Sethi, Jason McGavin
1From the Department of Anesthesiology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Abstract:
Blunt chest trauma and the treatment of associated pain can lead to impaired respiratory drive and abnormal pulmonary mechanics, in turn resulting in significant respiratory system complications. These can include pneumonia, hypoxia, atelectasis, and a prolonged need for invasive mechanical ventilation. Epidural analgesia can decrease the need for systemic pain control and may improve cooperation with pulmonary rehabilitation exercises. However, this treatment modality also carries a small risk of severe neurological complications such as spinal cord trauma, spinal cord ischemia, and epidural hematoma or abscess. This case report describes one such rare neurological complication: acute quadriparesis after thoracic epidural placement.
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