What is the incidence of inadvertent dural puncture during epidural anesthesia in obstetrics?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 686-687

  Introna, Robert P S ^a   Blair, John R ^a   Neeld, John B ^a  

^a NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; LETTER; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PERIPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84865608891     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3182639d88     Document Type: Letter

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