Journal de neurologie clinique et de neurochirurgie

Transient Neurological Symptoms and Spinal Anesthesia

Abstract

Yue Hu, Yong Ye, and Yong Tao

The spinal anesthesia induced by injection of local anesthetics in the subarachnoid space, which blocked the conduction function of some spinal nerves. However, there are various kinds of anesthetics used in spinal anesthesia; many of them can cause transient or permeant neurological symptoms. One often-overlooked complication of intraspinal anesthesia is Transient Nervous Syndrome (TNS). TNS can affect patients' mood and postoperative recovery. This paper mainly describes the related factors of TNS after spinal anesthesia, such as local anesthetics, surgical position and operation time and discusses the mechanism, prevention and treatment of TNS.