Instrumentation of the loss-of-resistance technique for epidural needle insertion

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 820-827

  Tran, Denis ^a   Hor, King Wei ^a,b   Kamani, Allaudin A ^a,c   Lessoway, Victoria A ^c   Rohling, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anesthesiology; Biomedical laboratories; Modeling; Transducers

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL LABORATORIES; CLINICAL STUDIES; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INJECTION FLOW RATES; MODELING; NEEDLE INSERTIONS; PEAK PRESSURES; PRESSURE MODELS; QUANTITATIVE RESULTS; RESISTANCE TECHNIQUES; SALINE INJECTIONS; TISSUE RESISTANCES;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; FLOW RATE; OBSTETRICS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

NEEDLES;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; FORCE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGAMENT; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; MODEL; MUSCLE; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SIMULATOR; SYRINGE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PRESSURE; SWINE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 65349112582     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2011475     Document Type: Article

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