Pressure sores as a possible complication of epidural analgesia.

everal complications caused by epidural analgesia have been described. Some of these (e.g., S cardiac arrest, convulsions, total spinal blockade, and hypotension) occur within minutes, whereas other complications (like epidural hematoma and meningeal infection) become apparent much later (1,2). We describe a complication that occurred in two patients and was discovered 24 h after the start of epidural analgesia.

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