“…In all, there is a low incidence of infectious complications following anesthesiological procedures in the epidural and spinal spaces [25]. In this metaanalysis of 854 patients, there were 42 cases of SEA following catheter epidural anesthesia, nine following spinal anesthesia, and five following "single shot" injections into the epidural space (Table 1) [24,36,39,45,57,70,79,86,104,106,117,122,128,142,152,186,213,215,225,233,241,256,259,260,265,278,304,318,335,342,351,352,362,365,382,385].…”