• Anaesthesia · Oct 2010

    Case Reports

    Brachial plexopathy as a complication of induced hypothermia following cardiac arrest.

    • C L Hammell and L Sulaiman.
    • Department of Anaesthesia, Macclesfield Hospital, Cheshire, UK. cham37uk@yahoo.com
    • Anaesthesia. 2010 Oct 1;65(10):1034-6.

    AbstractInduced hypothermia following cardiac arrest is a common treatment in the critical care unit. Topical cooling measures are easy to initiate and widely utilised. We report a case of brachial plexopathy occurring in association with topical cooling measures and discuss the diagnosis, management and avoidance of such complications.© 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.

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