Open Access"Dry tap" during spinal anaesthesia turns out to be epidural abscess
Author(s) -
Dinesh Kumar Sahu,
Vinca Kaul,
Reena Parampill
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.98779
Subject(s) - medicine , cellulitis , spinal anesthesia , surgery , abscess , spinal epidural abscess , anesthesia , incision and drainage , epidural abscess , regional anesthesia , staphylococcus aureus , biology , bacteria , genetics
We report a case of "dry tap" during spinal anaesthesia in a patient posted for incision and drainage of lower limb with cellulitis. When the patient was being given sub-arachnoid block (SAB) for regional anaesthesia, it turned out to be a case of pyogenic ilio-psoas abscess extended up to the paravertebral and epidural spaces. The causative organism was Staphylococcus aureus. This is probably the first case reported when epidural abscess is diagnosed during SAB.