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An Unusual Complication of Lumbosacral Plexus Block

A Case Report

STANLEY MURAVCHICK, PhD, MD^*, and WILLIAM D. OWENS, MD

*Resident. Barnes Hospital. Department of Anesthesiology. Washington University School of Medicine. St. Louis, Missouri 63110. Assistant Professor. Department of Anesthesiology. Washington University School of Medicine. St. Louis, Missouri 63110.

Abstract

Lumbosacral plexus block is a valuable anesthetic technic in the hands of an experienced anesthesiologist. However, as illustrated by this case report, anesthetic dosage must he selected with great care, and patients unable to describe paresthesias should be excluded from use of this procedure.

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