Pencil point spinal needles and neurological damage
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A comparison study between newly-designed pencil-point and cutting needles in spinal anesthesia.
OBJECTIVES The goal of this single blinded randomized study was to compare the use of routine cutting-tip spinal needle and newly-designed pencil-point Pajunk(AE) in terms of success rate, complications and satisfactions in priests undergoing spinal anesthesia for orthopedic, general and urological surgery at Priest Hospital, Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD After Institutional Review Board appr...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0007-0912,1471-6771
DOI: 10.1093/bja/89.5.800