• Paediatric anaesthesia · Aug 2006

    Case Reports

    Extravasation of propofol is associated with tissue necrosis in small children.

    • Winfried Roth, Stephan Eschertzhuber, Alexander Gardetto, and Christian Keller.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. winfried.roth@uibk.ac.at
    • Paediatr Anaesth. 2006 Aug 1;16(8):887-9.

    AbstractPropofol is widely used for induction of anesthesia and many reports document extravasation and even intra-arterial injections without clinical sequelae. We report a case of tissue necrosis after subcutaneous injection of propofol in a 31-day-old infant.

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