Anesthesia & Clinical Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-6148
ISSN: 2155-6148
Goran Kurnik
Slovenia
Case Report
Accidental Intra Arterial Injection of Ephedrine: What about the Treatment with
Nitroglycerin?
Author(s): Sergeja Kozar and Goran Kurnik
Sergeja Kozar and Goran Kurnik
Accidental intra-arterial (IA) injection of drugs in the perioperative setting is fortunately a rare event, but it can
cause severe extremity ischaemia, which can result in significant morbidity due to tissue necrosis. There have been
many articles reported about inadvertent intra-arterial injections of various drugs over the last decades.
However, we found none about the unintentional IA injection of ephedrine, so we present the following case.
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DOI:
10.4172/2155-6148.1000510