P. Southorn et al., REDUCING THE POTENTIAL MORBIDITY OF AN UNINTENTIONAL SPINAL ANESTHETIC BY ASPIRATING CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID, British Journal of Anaesthesia, 76(3), 1996, pp. 467-469
We describe two cases where we attempted to reduce the adverse effects
of inadvertent spinal anaesthesia by aspirating local anaesthetic-con
taminated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Analysis of this CSF for its loca
l anaesthetic concentration revealed that we were able to recover 51%
and 39% of the administered lignocaine. It is suggested that such aspi
ration may be a helpful additional measure to the supportive managemen
t of this complication.