[Cardiac arrest after axillary plexic anaesthesia with ropivacaine in a chronic kidney failure dialysis patient]

J-B Lascarrou; F Thibaut; J M Malinovsky

doi:10.1016/j.annfar.2008.03.008

[Cardiac arrest after axillary plexic anaesthesia with ropivacaine in a chronic kidney failure dialysis patient]

Ann Fr Anesth Reanim. 2008 Jun;27(6):495-8. doi: 10.1016/j.annfar.2008.03.008. Epub 2008 Jun 18.

[Article in French]

Authors

J-B Lascarrou¹, F Thibaut, J M Malinovsky

Affiliation

¹ Service d'anesthésie réanimation, CHU de Nantes, 1, place Alexis-Ricordeau, 44000 Nantes, France. lascarroujb@hotmail.com

PMID: 18565718
DOI: 10.1016/j.annfar.2008.03.008

Abstract

The local anaesthetics are responsible for an important part of morbidity and mortality during conduction anaesthesia. We describe fatal accident plexic anaesthesia with ropivacaine in spite of a classical reanimation measure in a dialysis patient.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Amides / adverse effects*
Anesthetics, Local / adverse effects*
Brain / pathology
Fatal Outcome
Female
Heart Arrest / etiology*
Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications*
Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Middle Aged
Renal Dialysis
Ropivacaine

Substances

Amides
Anesthetics, Local
Ropivacaine