What Are The Side Effects Of Epidural Anesthesia Needles?

There are ten main complications

First: through the dura;

Second: puncture needle or catheter into a blood vessel, this situation will generally be found in time, but sometimes the catheter opening is blocked by small blood clotting quickly back aspiration without blood, local anesthetics will be directly injected into the blood vessel toxic reaction;

Third: Air embolism, which is mainly because the puncture needle damages the epidural vessels. The gas injection test provides a way for the gas to enter the circulation. If the intake volume is more than 10 ml, there is a possibility of death.

Fourth: Pierce the pleura

Fifth: the catheter is broken

Sixth: General spinal anesthesia, mainly due to puncture needles or catheters into the subarachnoid space and failure to detect in time, injection of local anesthetics several times more than the spinal anesthesia into the subarachnoid space, resulting in abnormal extensive block, mainly manifested as no pain, hypotension, loss of consciousness and respiratory arrest in all spinal nerve innervation areas, these symptoms appear several minutes after injection, if not timely treatment may cause cardiac arrest Stop. This is the most serious complication.

Seventh: Unusually extensive block, this is not the whole spinal anesthesia, although the range of block is wide, but still segmental.

Eighth: Spinal nerve root or spinal cord injury

9. Epidural hematoma, although rare, is the leading cause of paraplegia after epidural anesthesia

Tenth: including epidural space infection and subarachnoid space infection

The correct epidural without complications does not affect the brain

As for that anesthesia is safer, from the anesthesiologist's point of view is of course their own skilled method of safety, what kind of anesthesia is not only to consider one aspect, take appendectomy for example, epidural is certainly better than local anesthesia, local anesthesia can not guarantee the block of the scope, will certainly hurt, local anesthesia is generally played by the surgeon, such as lower limbs have a special superficial small swelling There's no need for an epidural. Anyway, the type of anesthesia you use depends on the procedure.