Paraplegia Following General Anesthesia.

Ditzler, John W.; McIver, Gene

doi:10.1213/00000539-195609000-00011

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“…Spinal paralysis may follow even general anesthesia (19) and is supposedly caused by pre-existing arteriosclerotic disease of the anterior spinal artery plus hypotension during the intervention. Finally, one must not forget that detrimental effects, such as para plegia, may result from long lasting anesthetics (efocaine) injected into peripheral nerves (16,28) or after epidural anesthesia (14,18).…”

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Some Interesting Observations in Neurological Urology

Turner¹,

Bors²

1963

Urol Int

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Some Interesting Observations in Neurological Urology

Turner¹,

Bors²

1963

Urol Int

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“…These were due to either a thrombosis following hypotension (Ciliberti, 1948;Ditzler and McIver, 1956) or to air embolism during the induction of an artificial pneumothorax (Wikler et al, 1937) or injury to the pulmonary vein during thoracotomy (Thomas and Dwyer, 1950).…”

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Paraplegia Following Epidural Anaesthesia

Davies¹,

Solomon²,

Levene³

1959

Survey of Anesthesiology

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SummaryIn 1955 the lung cancer death rate reported in England and Wales for males was 2.1 times as high as reported in the United States and for females 1.6 times as high. A difference of this order of magnitude has existed in male rates for several decades; while prior to 1949 there was only a small difference in the female rates.Among both males and females in the middle-and old-age groups there are proportionately more cigarette smokers in the United Kingdom than in the United States. On the other hand, at the present time the number of cigarettes consumed per smoker per day is higher in the United States than in the United Kingdom. The proportion of male cigarette smokers who inhale appears to be approximately the same in the two countries. In the United States the average length of the remaining butt after a cigarette is discarded is about 31 mm.; about 5% are 45 mm. or longer and about 9% are under 20 mm. in length. In the United States in 1957 the main stream smoke of the average cigarette contained about 2.6 mg. of nicotine and 42.8 mg. of of tar. More recently, cigarettes with a relatively low content of nicotine and tar have become increasingly popular in the United States.Data at present available do not support the hypothesis that a substantial proportion of the difference in lung cancer death rates between the two countries is attributable to differences in the use of cigarettes. However, more detailed information on smoking habits and on the chemical composition of cigarette smoke in the two countries is needed before this can be definitely established.In both countries the lung cancer death rate of smokers, as well as the lung cancer death rate of nonsmokers, is higher in urban areas than in rural areas. The difference in this respect is reported to be far greater between Liverpool and rural areas of Wales than between large cities and rural areas in the United States. However, Merseyside (which includes Liverpool) has a higher male lung cancer death rate than any other region in England and Wales, so it cannot be considered as typical of the country as a whole. While it is possible that some of the diserence in lung cancer death rates may be due to factors associated with urbanization-for example, air pollution or occupational exposures-available evidence does not suggest that these factors can account for a large part of the difference.The reported death rate from cancer, exclusive of lung cancer, declined steadily from 1931-5 to 1956 in England and Wales but rose slightly in the United States during the same period of time. It is possible that differences in the diagnosis and recording of causes of death may account for a part of the difference between reported lung cancer death rates in the two countries.

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“…It should also be mentioned that cases of paraplegia have been reported as occurring after general anaesthesia. These were due to either a thrombosis following hypotension (Ciliberti, 1948;Ditzler and McIver, 1956) or to air embolism during the induction of an artificial pneumothorax (Wikler et al, 1937) or injury to the pulmonary vein during thoracotomy (Thomas and Dwyer, 1950).…”

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