Cardiac arrest after submucosal infiltration with lignocaine 2%-epinephrine in nasal surgery: A Case report.

Shonali Chandrakant Pawar, Surekha Shirish Patil, Sheetal Ravindra Jagtap, Sandesh Deolekar

Abstract


A case of a 26-year-old ASA I physical status male undergoing septoplasty had an abrupt pulseless ventricular tachycardia following submucosal infiltration of lignocaine 2% with epinephrine 1:200,000 combination. Ventricular tachycardia associated with unconsciousness and absent peripheral pulse was transient and easily reverted by precordial thump, but was recurrent. Ventricular tachycardia was replaced by ventricular bigeminy and subsequently by sinus tachycardia.

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