Abstract

A cross-sectional study was conducted by adopting a meta-analysis in cooperation with different hospitals in Baghdad, Iraq, where 200 patients collected with different age groups from 20 to 60 years were collected.  The statistical analysis program SPSS IBM SOFT 22 was relied upon to analyse the results of patients resulting from the use of epidural anaesthesia. In this study, four anesthetists were relied upon in order to provide follow-up to the patient’s condition after surgery, where the visit to the patient was estimated twice, after one day and two days later, and classification was made to the epidural through the use of an eye consisting of 11 points, and complications were analyzed and recorded at two days and between 3 to 10 days, then the patients were contacted to know the effects after five months. The most frequent complications were post-operative neurologic deficits for 17 patients, as well as low body temperature for 17 patients, in addition to the presence of epidural hematoma for 13 patients and the occurrence of vomiting and nausea for 16 patients along the time period in the evaluation of complications. We conclude the effect of using epidural anaesthesia was significant, and it was noted that the patients had complications. In general, the incidence of complications was for 57 patients at two days, and from 3-10 days for 36 patients, and eight patients at more than five months, and the symptoms were evaluated for their occurrence at 50% in this study

Keywords

Anaesthesia, epidural, patients, vomiting, evaluation, complications