Retrograde epidural catheter relieves intractable sacral pain

Retrograde intubation with epidural catheter and Cook airway exchange catheter.

CAN J ANESTH 54: 5 www.cja-jca.org May, 2007 tubes.3 The added dead space or airway resistance is negligible. Although longer tubes are more likely to be inserted deeply or bend, these problems are easily rectified. Creation of a longer ETT was achieved through the connection of two tubes by a cut ETT connector.4,5 These cases used the combined tubes for a short period of time. It is questionab...

Sacral Epidural Anesthesia

Combined Sacral Spinal Epidural Anesthesia

A new spinal cord stimulation system effectively relieves chronic, intractable pain: a multicenter prospective clinical study.

Objectives.  A prospective, open label, multicenter clinical trial confirmed the functionality of a new spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system for the treatment of chronic, intractable pain of the trunk and/or limbs. Materials and Methods.  Sixty-five subjects tested a rechargeable 16-channel SCS system with individual current control of each contact on one or two percutaneous eight-contact epidu...

Acute postoperative pain management and malfunctioning epidural catheter.

J.S., a 30-year-old male, was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma of the small bowel with extension into the retroperitoneal space one month before admission. Abdominal x-rays and an ultrasound confirmed the presence of a 17 cm x 10 cm mass protruding from the edge of the jejunum and extending approximately 8–10 cm posteriorly up to the medial edge of the right kidney. General anesthesia was required...