Neurologic Complications of Neuraxial Analgesia/Anesthesia: Drug-related neurologic complications
General Information When performing neuraxial procedures, the right drug injected into the wrong place (e.g., local anesthetic [LA] injected intravascularly) or the wrong drug injected into the right place (e.g., 2-chloroprocaine injected intrathecally) can both cause neurologic complications. 1. Systemic Local Anesthetic Toxicity Unrecognized injection of large doses of LA into an epidural vein during…