Successful epidural anesthesia using 120 mm epidural needle for cesarean section in a morbidly obese parturient with body mass index 50.2 kg · m-2

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1409-1411

  Nitta, Rie ^a   Yabe, Masaya ^b   Sato, Masayoshi ^a   Kimura, Tetsu ^a   Nishikawa, Toshiaki ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ogachi Chuo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cesarean section; Epidural anesthesia; Epidural needle; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; NEEDLE; OBESITY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; BODY MASS INDEX; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEEDLES; OBESITY, MORBID; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33751257183     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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