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Nerve Injury

Journal Articles

  1. Kroll DA, Caplan RA, Posner K, Ward RJ, Cheney FW: Nerve injury associated with anesthesia. Anesthesiology 73:202-207, 1990. [Abstract, NLM PubMed Link]
    1. Of 1,541 claims reviewed, 227 (15%) were for anesthesia related nerve injury. Ulnar neuropathy represented one-third of all nerve injuries and was the most frequent nerve injury. Less frequent sites of injury were brachial plexus (23%) and the lumbosacral nerve roots (16%). Nerve damage is a significant source of anesthesia related claims but the exact mechanism of the injury is often unclear.
  2. Cheney FW, Domino KB, Caplan RA, Posner KL: Nerve injury associated with anesthesia: A closed claims analysis. Anesthesiology 90: 1062-1069, 1999. [Abstract, NLM PubMed Link]. Order this article from: ASA Closed Claims Project
    1. The major categories of nerve injury for which a claim of malpractice against anesthesiologists was made include ulnar nerve, brachial plexus, spinal cord, and lumbosacral nerve root. Although ulnar neuropathy was the most common injury overall, spinal cord injury was the most common category among claims in which the injury occurred in the 1990s.

      Newsletter Articles

  1. Cheney FW: Perioperative Ulnar Nerve Injury - A Continuing Medical and Liability Problem. ASA Newsletter 62(6):10-11, 1998. [Full Text]

Conference Presentations and ASA Abstracts

  1. Lee LA, Posner KL, Cheney FW, Domino KB: ASA Closed Claims Project: An Analysis of Claims Associated with Neurosurgical Anesthesia. Anesthesiology, 99: A362, 2003. [Full Text]