New knowledge reduces risk of damage to spinal cord from spinal haematoma after epidural- or spinal-analgesia and from spinal cord stimulator leads

摘要

In this issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Pain Michael Lagerkranser publishes two connected papers in which he analyses risk factors and management of 166 cases of bleeding into the spinal canal (spinal haematoma (SH)), rare complications that can damage the spinal cord, from epidural- or spinal-analgesia (central neuraxial blocks (CNB)) and from spinal cord stimulator (SCS) lead-electrodes [1,2]. These 166 case stories, published between 1994 and 2015, appeared in MEDLINE- or EMBASE-databases.