Anaesthetic management of a parturient with severe kyphoscoliosis

Abstract

Use of neuraxial block in a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis is controversial. We describe the anaesthetic management by spinal anaesthesia of a parturient with severe kyphoscoliosis in obstructed labour. The perioperative course was uneventful. We suggest that a patient with severe kyphoscoliosis may be successfully managed by spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section.

doi: 10.3126/kumj.v6i3.1716

Kathmandu University Medical Journal (2008), Vol. 6, No. 3, Issue 23, 379-382