Decreased tensile strength of an epidural catheter during its removal by grasping with a hemostat

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 210-212

  Nishio, Isuta ^a,b   Sekiguchi, Masaki ^a   Aoyama, Yasuhiko ^a   Asano, Shingo ^a   Ono, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; NYLON; POLITEF; POLYETHYLENE; POLYURETHAN; STAINLESS STEEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLIP; DEVICE REMOVAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0034955160     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200107000-00041     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Management of broken catheters
2. Knotting of an epidural catheter: A case report
3. How to dislodge a severely trapped epidural catheter
4. Difficulty in the removal of an epidural catheter
5. A case report: Difficulty in the removal of an epidural catheter
6. Removal of a tenacious epidural catheter
7. A means for handling difficulty in removal of an inserted epidural catheter
8. Decreased incidence of complications in parturients with the arrow (FlexTip Plus) epidural catheter
9. The mechanical properties of intact and traumatized epidural catheters
10. Unusual complications from placement of catheters in caudal canal in obstetrical anesthesia
11. Lumbar stenosis complicating epidural catheter tip
12. Radicular pain due to retained fragment of epidural catheter