Echocardiography for management of low cardiac output state after axillary block in a dehydrated patient with aortic stenosis: case report.

Acta Anaesthesiol Belg

Resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Acute Medicine Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (Catholic University of Louvain), Brussels, Belgium.

Published: December 2005

We report an episode of transient low cardiac output in a dehydrated elderly woman having an undetected clinically significant aortic stenosis, after an axillary blockade. Cardiac echography was determinant for management of this patient. Events were considered to be from hemodynamic origin.

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