“Can anesthesia lead to nerve damage?”
Can anesthesia ever lead to nerve damage in a person?
3 Answers
AnesthesiologistNerveDamage
Regional anesthesia could be implicated in perferal nerve damage. Also malpositions during procedure could do the same.
The most likely way this could happen related to anesthesia would be from a direct injection of local anesthetic into a nerve fascicle during a nerve block.
I am unsure what anesthetic procedure you are speaking about. Generally, no anesthetic should cause nerve damage. Improper technique could hypothetically cause damage to a nerve if injected, but even that would be rare and usually temporary.
