Case Report of a Rare Cause of Postoperative Transient Tetraparesis after Epidural Catheter Placement |Biomedgrid

Epidural anesthesia in combination with general anesthesia is a standard procedure for major visceral surgery [1-3]. Severe complications of epidural anesthesia are rare, but there is a risk of epidural hematomas, which can cause spinal cord compression [4]. Incidence rates differ in specific perioperative patient populations [5]. In general, this complication is excluded by computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [6]. In the literature, the rate of complications related to epidural anesthesia ranges from < 10% for transient paresthesia to 0.0006% for epidural hematomas with signs of compression [6].