Epidural catheter placement in morbidly obese parturients with the use of an epidural depth equation prior to ultrasound visualization

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Singh, Sukhdip ^a   Wirth, Keith M ^a   Phelps, Amy L ^b   Badve, Manasi H ^a   Shah, Tanmay H ^a   Sah, Neera ^c   Vallejo, Manuel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c St Margaret's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPTH GAUGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL DEPTH EQUATION; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBID OBESITY; NEEDLE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PREECLAMPSIA; PUNCTURE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESIDENT; SKIN; ULTRASOUND; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CATHETERIZATION; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; ECHOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881402880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/695209     Document Type: Article

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