TY - JOUR T1 - Cord injury after spinal block for caesarean section JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 264 LP - 265 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2020-002760 VL - 21 IS - 3 AU - Ramkumar Sugumaran AU - Sunil K Narayan AU - Atul Goel AU - Pankaj Kundra Y1 - 2021/06/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/21/3/264.abstract N2 - The most common causes of nerve injury following regional anaesthesia are compression from haematoma, direct trauma and chemical neuritis.1 We describe a 26-year-old woman who had undergone an emergency caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia for fetal distress (category 1) in a peripheral hospital. The anaesthetist had used a 25-guage needle, while attempting to access the L3-L4 and L4-L5 intervertebral spaces in the midline, with the patient in the left lateral decubitus position. During the needle insertion, the patient experienced severe pain radiating down her right leg. Following the procedure, she developed right foot drop, right leg numbness and dysesthesia in an L4 to S1 dermatomal distribution. Five months after the delivery, the patient was referred to … ER -