Which Is a Better Position for Insertion of a High Thoracic Epidural Catheter: Sitting or Lateral Decubitus?

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 656-658

  Nishi, Masatoshi ^a   Usukaura, Ai ^a   Kidani, Yoko ^a   Tsubokawa, Tsunehisa ^a   Yamamoto, Ken ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

off pump coronary artery bypass; placement of high thoracic epidural catheter; positions

Indexed keywords

MEPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERAL DECUBITUS POSITION; MALE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SITTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VAGUS REFLEX;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33749121140     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2006.03.019     Document Type: Article

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