Approach to failed spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section

Mojgan Rahimi; Afzal Shamsi; Negar Eftekhar; Hyder Jaber AL-Qgaili

Authors

Mojgan Rahimi Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Afzal Shamsi Anesthetics Group, School of Allied Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Negar Eftekhar Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hyder Jaber AL-Qgaili Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Keywords:

Caesarean section, failed spinal, general anesthesia, repeat spinal

Abstract

Failure of spinal anesthesia for a cesarean section (C-Section) may have both maternal and neonatal deleterious sequel, Contrivances of spinal anesthesia failure in addition to the “approach to a failed block” have been discussed in this article.