Pressure waveform-guided epidural catheter placement in comparison to the loss-of-resistance conventional method

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 395-401

  Gong, Yuhua ^a   Shi, Haixia ^a   Wu, Jie ^a   Labu, Danbaila ^a   Sun, Junzhi ^a   Zhong, Haiyan ^a   Li, Libiao ^a   Xin, Xuedong ^a   Wang, Ling ^a   Wu, Lifang ^a   Ma, Daqing ^b  

^a INNER MONGOLIA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catheterization; Epidural anesthesia; Epidural catheter placement: complications; Loss of resistance technique; Pressure waveform guided epidural catheter placement

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CATHETERIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOSS OF RESISTANCE TECHNIQUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; NERVE INJURY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRESSURE WAVEFORM GUIDED EPIDURAL CATHETER PLACEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURGERY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908163198     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: 18734529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2014.01.015     Document Type: Article

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