Sezen Kumaş Solak1, Tahir Tulga2

1Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Ordu State Hospital, Ordu,Turkey
2Department of Otorhinolaringology, Ordu State Hospital, Ordu, Turkey

Keywords: Spinal anesthesia, transient; unilateral sudden hearing loss.

Abstract

Hearing loss after spinal anesthesia is one of the rare complications. It has been suggested that low frequent hearing loss develops after the development of endolymphatic hydrops in the cochlea due to CSF escape after dural puncture. Hearing loss after nonotologic surgical procedures is very rare and usually can only be determined by audiometric evaluation. We aimed to present the sudden unilateral hearing loss and healing process in a patient who underwent spinal anesthesia for elective anterior cruciate ligament surgery in this postoperative period.