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Wandering epidural catheter.
A MALE patient, 73 yr old, had a Flexitip Plus (Arrow International, Reading, PA) 19gauge end-hole, wire-reinforced thoracic epidural catheter inserted for postthoracotomy pain management. He underwent highresolution spiral computed tomography scan with the catheter in situ before its use to evaluate previous bronchoscopic findings. A composite set of sagittal computed tomography images (figs. ...
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The 2-part Education News column, “Upgrading nurse anesthesia educational requirements (1933-2006)” by Betty Horton, CRNA, PhD, was very timely and informative.1,2 Dr Horton succinctly chronicled the historical development of our educational standards and how the consistent elevation of those standards reflects a sustained commitment to excellence. Over the past 2 years, I have practiced anesth...
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Corresponding author: Jae-Hang Shim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Hanyang University Hospital, 249-1, Gyomun-dong, Guri 471-701, Korea. Tel: 82-31-560-2390, Fax: 82-31-563-1731, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by...
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BACKGROUND Accidental cannulation of an epidural vein is a common complication associated with epidural anesthesia or analgesia. On the basis of a pilot study and previous reports, we tested the hypothesis that predistention of the epidural space with saline before epidural catheterization would ease catheter insertion and decrease the incidence of this complication. METHODS Two-hundred-three...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1993.tb07500.x