"Indwelling Tunneled Epidural Catheter for Analgesia in a Terminal Cancer Patient: A Case Report"
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Case report: bilateral tunneled epidural catheters to prevent unilateral analgesia for cancer-related pain
OBJECTIVE Unilateral analgesia often occurs with epidural analgesia. Traditional methods of troubleshooting this problem can be insufficient in obtaining adequate pain relief in a timely manner for terminal cancer patients. This case report demonstrates a safe and effective solution which can be utilized in these circumstances. CASE REPORT A 55-year-old female with stage IV pancreatic cancer ...
متن کاملEpidural abscess after patient-controlled epidural analgesia. Case report.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Epidural analgesia is often used to control postoperative pain or to manage chronic pain in oncologic patients. However, it is not free from complications. This case reports a young healthy female patient submitted to epidural analgesia in patient-controlled infusion pump, which developed epidural abscess requiring surgical decompression. CASE REPORT Female patient, ...
متن کاملEpidural haematoma following anticoagulant treatment in a patient with an indwelling epidural catheter.
We report the occurrence of an epidural haematoma after the removal of a lumbar epidural catheter, which had been inserted 2 days previously for surgery to revise a thrombosed femoral-popliteal graft. Pre-operatively the patient received intravenous heparin by infusion, but this was stopped 7 h prior to epidural insertion. Coagulation studies were normal. The epidural catheter insertion was unr...
متن کاملSpinal epidural hematoma related to an epidural catheter in a cardiac surgery patient -A case report-
The addition of thoracic epidural anesthesia to general anesthesia during cardiac surgery may have a beneficial effect on clinical outcome. However, epidural catheter insertion in a patient anticoagulated with heparin may increase the risk of epidural hematoma. We report a case of epidural hematoma in a 55-year-old male patient who had a thoracic epidural placed under general anesthesia precedi...
متن کاملTunneled epidural catheters for prolonged analgesia in pediatric patients.
UNLABELLED We conducted this retrospective study to document the efficacy and safety, and demonstrate the spectrum of indications for subcutaneously tunneled epidural catheters in the management of prolonged pain in pediatric patients. The charts of 25 patients with prolonged pain that was unresponsive to conventional opioid therapy (10: end stage malignancy, 8: extensive abdominal surgery, 7: ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2474-7653
DOI: 10.19080/jaicm.2017.04.555632