Anaesthesia Management for Acquired Internal Hernia A Rare Cause of Subacute Intestinal Obstruction

Dharuni K R Priya; Ranjith Kumar; G H Megha

doi:10.51131/IJPCCR/v3i1.22_26

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International Journal of Preclinical and Clinical Research

DOI: 10.51131/IJPCCR/v3i1.22_26

Year: 2022, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-27

Case Report

Anaesthesia Management for Acquired Internal Hernia A Rare Cause of Subacute Intestinal Obstruction

Dharuni K R Priya ^{✉ 1}, Ranjith Kumar ², G H Megha ³

¹ Post Graduate, Department of Anaesthesiology, Basaveshwara Medical College and Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka, India

² Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Basaveshwara Medical College and Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka, India

³ Head of the Department, Department of Anaesthesiology, Basaveshwara Medical College and Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka, India

Corresponding author ✉ [email protected]

Received Date:05 April 2022, Accepted Date:07 April 2022, Published Date:08 April 2022

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Internal hernia are a rare cause of subacute intestinal obstruction in adults. Internal hernia has reported autopsy incidence of 0.2 – 0.9 % and is cause of small bowel obstruction in 0.6 – 5.8 % of cases. In this case report we present successful anaesthetic management of a 39-year-old Indian male with internal hernia presenting as subacute intestinal obstruction who underwent exploratory laparotomy under combined spinal epidural anaesthesia. This case provides that combined spinal epidural can be an effective technique for gastrointestinal surgery with spontaneous respiration in short stature patients.

Keywords: Internal hernia, Subacute intestinal obstruction, Combined spinal epidural anaesthesia

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© 2022 Priya et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Published By Basaveshwara Medical College & Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka.