Successful resuscitation of a patient who developed cardiac arrest from pulsed saline bacitracin lavage during thoracic laminectomy and fusion

Steven B Greenberg; Mark Deshur; Yevgeniy Khavkin; Elden Karaikovic; Jeffery Vender

doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2007.10.014

Successful resuscitation of a patient who developed cardiac arrest from pulsed saline bacitracin lavage during thoracic laminectomy and fusion

J Clin Anesth. 2008 Jun;20(4):294-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2007.10.014.

Authors

Steven B Greenberg¹, Mark Deshur, Yevgeniy Khavkin, Elden Karaikovic, Jeffery Vender

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, IL 60201, USA. sgreenberg@enh.org

PMID: 18617129
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2007.10.014

Abstract

A patient with a history of T12 burst fracture caused by a fall, and with progressive weakness and sensory loss in the left leg, survived a cardiac arrest after pulsed saline bacitracin lavage irrigation during a posterior spinal fusion.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Anaphylaxis / complications*
Anaphylaxis / therapy
Anti-Bacterial Agents / administration & dosage
Anti-Bacterial Agents / adverse effects*
Bacitracin / administration & dosage
Bacitracin / adverse effects*
Bronchoalveolar Lavage
Death, Sudden, Cardiac* / etiology
Female
Humans
Intraoperative Complications
Laminectomy
Middle Aged
Sodium Chloride / administration & dosage
Spinal Fractures / surgery*
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Bacitracin
Sodium Chloride