Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Anaesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Anaesthesia, 1993 Jun;48(6):514-5.
PMID: 8322993

Abstract

A case of severe bronchospasm occurring during epidural anaesthesia in a patient undergoing Caesarean section is described. The aetiology of the bronchospasm may have been related to sympathetic nervous blockade allowing unopposed parasympathetically mediated bronchoconstriction.

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