Ömer Karaca, Hüseyin Ulaş Pınar, Rafi Doğan

Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey

Keywords: Anaphylaxis, epidural anaesthesia, rifampicin.

Abstract

Epidural anesthesia of which effectiveness has proved on the protection of organs, is preferred particularly in high-risk patients. However this anesthesia technique has life-threatening complications. The symptoms occurring for any reason during epidural anesthesia resemble the symptoms of such complications for which reason the diagnosis of anaphylaxis can be easily missed.