Multiport epidural catheters: Does the air test work?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1617-1620

  Leighton, Barbara L ^a,f   Topkis, William G ^b   Gross, Jeffrey B ^c   Arkoosh, Valerie A ^d   Lee, Sung Hee R ^a   Huffnagle, H Jane ^e   Huffnagle, Suzanne L ^e  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b United Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural test dose; Obstetric anesthesia

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE;

AIR; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

EID: 0034099582     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200006000-00018     Document Type: Article

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