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Cardiorespiratory arrest following combined spinal epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
Y Myint1, P W Bailey, B R Milne
1Department of Anaesthesia, University of Sheffield Medical School.
Anaesthesia
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 31-year-old woman had an elective Caesarean section under combined spinal/epidural anaesthesia. At the end of the operation, diamorphine 2.5 mg in 5 ml of 0.25% bupivacaine plain was injected through the epidural catheter. Forty minutes after this, the patient had a cardiorespiratory arrest in an ordinary postnatal ward.