Needle-through-Quincke needle technique for establishing spinal anaesthesia in the obese patient

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 400-401

  Medd, C ^a   Chandrashekar, R ^b   Simon, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DURA MATER; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; NEEDLE; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; ORTHOPEDICS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEEDLES; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79954482682     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06738.x     Document Type: Letter

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