Safe practices in epidural catheter tunneling
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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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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0970-9185
DOI: 10.4103/0970-9185.92476