Severe bronchospasm during epidural anaesthesia
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- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia
- Vol. 48 (6), 514-515
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1993.tb07074.x
Abstract
A case of severe bronchospasm occurring during epidural anaesthesia in a patient undergoing Caesarean section is described. The aetiology of the bronchospasm may have been related to sympathetic nervous blockade allowing unopposed parasympathetically mediated bronchoconstriction.Keywords
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