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| Year : 2023 | Volume
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Refractory hypertension after phenylephrine infusion in cesarean section under subarachnoid block
Vikash Bansal, Kirti N Saxena, Bharti Wadhwa
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Vikash Bansal
Flat No 259, Mirdard Colony, MAMC Campus, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/sja.sja_461_22
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A 21-year-old female was scheduled to undergo elective cesarean section for breech presentation under the subarachnoid block (SAB). The pre-operative examination was unremarkable and baseline vitals were normal. Under all aseptic precautions and American society of anesthesiologists standard monitoring, SAB was administered with 2.2 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine. Soon after administration of SAB, prophylactic infusion of phenylephrine was started at the rate of 50 μg/min; after pre-treatment with 0.2 mg glycopyrrolate intravenous immediately after the start of the infusion, the patient complained of severe headache. Blood pressure (BP) recorded at that time was 191/102 mm of Hg. Phenylephrine infusion was stopped immediately but the BP remained high and came to within 20% of baseline value only after 9 min of discontinuing the infusion. We report this case of refractory hypertension following phenylephrine infusion in a healthy parturient undergoing elective cesarean section under SAB.
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