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49th Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting
March 21-23, 2024 | The Hilton Bayfront San Diego | San Diego, California
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SPINAL EPIDURAL HEMATOMA FOLLOWING EPIDURAL CATHETERIZATION IN YOUNG, HEALTHY MALE AND SUBSEQUENT TIMING OF NEW EPIDURAL CATHETER
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UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Part of Topic
Medically Challenging Cases
Spinal Epidural Hematoma Following Epidural Catheterization in Young, Healthy Male and Subsequent Timing of New Epidural Catheter
Nathan Rietberg, MD and Valeria Cárcamo-Cavazos, MD
University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Introduction
•Spinal epidural hematoma following epidural catheter placement is a rare event.
•Ehrenfeld et. al found an incidence rate of 1 in 7200 in a recent study.
•The most common presenting symptoms in the study were lower extremity weakness, numbness, paralysis, and back pain.
•Risk factors for developing a hematoma include coagulopathy, elderly, females, and a technically difficult placement of an epidural catheter.
•We present a case of an epidural hematoma in an otherwise healthy, young male experiencing multiple pneumothoraces and the subsequent perioperative pain management.