Epidural Catheters: The Long and Winding Road

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 732-733

  Folk, Jeffrey W ^a   Joye, Todd P ^a   Duc, Thomas A ^a   Bailey, Melinda K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0034222041     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200007000-00022     Document Type: Article

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