Volume 69 Numbers 1 & 2 January/March 2002	back to contents

Complications of Spinal Anesthesia	55-56
Hatim Hyderally, M.D.

Address correspondence to Hatim Hyderally, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Box 1010, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029-6574.

ABSTRACT

Serious neurological complications after spinal anesthesia are rare, but do occur. The most common are postdural puncture headache and hypotension. Hypotension after spinal anesthesia is a physiological consequence of sympathetic blockade. The diagnoses and management of these sequelae are discussed.

KEYWORDS

Regional anesthesia, complications, spinal anesthesia, postdural puncture headache, transient radicular irritation, cauda equina syndrome, neurologic deficits.

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