title: Unanticipated cardiac arrest under spinal anesthesia: An unavoidable mystery with review of current literature.
abstract: Cardiac arrest during anesthesia and perioperative period is a matter of grave concern for any anesthesiologist. But such mishaps have been reported for one reason or the other in the literary sciences. We are reporting the occurrence of unanticipated delayed cardiac arrest following spinal anesthesia in two young and healthy patients. Fortunately, these patients were successfully resuscitated with timely and appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitative measures. Occurrence of such cases needs timely reporting and exploring all the possible causes of these unusual and possibly avoidable events. The present case reports are an important addition to a series of recently published mishaps that occurred during spinal anesthesia in young and healthy patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical sciences, Vallah, Amritsar, India.
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumari
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical sciences, Vallah, Amritsar, India.
authors.forename: Ruchi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Gian Sagar Medical College and Hospital, Ram Nagar, Banur, Punjab, India.
authors.forename: Sukhminder Jit Singh
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Bajwa
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical sciences, Vallah, Amritsar, India.
authors.forename: Amrinder
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
keywords: Asystole; bradycardia; cardiac arrest; spinal anesthesia