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Spinal Cord Lesions After Central Neuraxial Blockade

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Neurological complications may follow neuraxial (spinal and epidural) analgesia and anaesthesia.

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  1. Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK

    Mary Mushambi

  2. Kettering General Hospital, Kettering, UK

    Asif Mahmood

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Women’s Wellness and Research Centre, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

    Roshan Fernando

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Pervez Sultan

  3. Department of Anaesthesia, Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, UK

    Sioned Phillips

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Mushambi, M., Mahmood, A. (2022). Spinal Cord Lesions After Central Neuraxial Blockade. In: Fernando, R., Sultan, P., Phillips, S. (eds) Quick Hits in Obstetric Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72487-0_59

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