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Brachial plexus injury following brachial plexus block
Author(s) -
LIM E. K.,
PEREIRA R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1984.tb06478.x
Subject(s) - medicine , complication , brachial plexus , paralysis , brachial plexus block , surgery , anesthesia , incidence (geometry) , block (permutation group theory) , physics , optics , geometry , mathematics
Summary A patient developed paralysis over the left upper limb 2 days after an otherwise uneventful supraclavicular brachial plexus block. Symptoms continued for 8 weeks after the block. The various possible causes for this complication are discussed. Although brachial plexus injury following the block is rare, some recommendations are made to reduce the incidence of this complication.