A whitacre-type spinal needle does not prevent intravascular injection during cervical nerve root injections

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 679-682

  Candido, Kenneth D ^a   Ghaly, Ramsis F ^a   MacKerley, Sara ^a   Knezevic, Nebojsa Nick ^a  

^a ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt needle; cervical nerve root injection; intravascular injection; pencil point; Whitacre type spinal needle

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; DEXAMETHASONE; IOPAMIDOL; LIDOCAINE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CERVICAL NERVE ROOT INJECTION; CERVICAL SPINE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; IMAGING; INFORMED CONSENT; INJECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRAVASCULAR INJECTION; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHOULDER; SKIN INFILTRATE; SPINE FUSION; SUPINE POSITION; TRIGGER POINT; WHITACRE TYPE SPINAL NEEDLE;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MEDICAL ERRORS; NEEDLES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 77954242178     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181e1e3d6     Document Type: Article

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