Pressure sore as a complication of labor epidural analgesia.
Lumbar epidural analgesia has become a common mode of pain control for laboring patients. Side effects, such as hypotension, motor blockade, respiratory depression, dural puncture, and urinary retention, are well described. Although pressure sores have been thought of as a complication limited to elderly, emaciated, unconscious, or bedridden patients, we describe the occurrence of pressure sores in a young and healthy parturient after lumbar epidural analgesia.


CONCLUSIONS
We report a pressure sore that resulted from lumbar epidural analgesia for labor.
Alfirevic
Andrej
A
From the *Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; the †Department of General Anesthesiology; and the ‡Center for Anesthesiology Education, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Argalious
Maged
M
Tetzlaff
John E
JE
D000328:Adult; D015360:Analgesia, Epidural / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D000700:Analgesics / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric / Q000187:drug effects; D011247:Pregnancy; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology
D000700:Analgesics