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Transient radicular irritation after spinal anaesthesia with 2% isobaric mepivacaine
1Servizio di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Centro Traumatologico Ortopedico, Firenze, Italia.
British Journal of Anaesthesia
|January 30, 1999
Abstract:
Several cases have been reported in which symptoms suggestive of transient radicular irritation occurred after the use of lidocaine (lignocaine) for spinal anaesthesia. We report three patients in whom we observed similar symptoms after uneventful spinal anaesthesia using isobaric 2% mepivacaine.