Real-time Ultrasound-guided Epidural Catheter Insertion in Obese Parturients. Issue 3 (September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gnaho, A.; Nau, A.; Gentili, M. E.
• Is Part Of: Obstetric anesthesia digest. Volume 36:Issue 3(2016:Sep.)
• Publication Date: 2016-09
• Subjects: Systems-based Practice -- Maternal Obesity; Anesthesia in obstetrics -- Periodicals; Anesthesia in obstetrics -- Abstracts -- Periodicals; 617.968205
• DOI: 10.1097/01.aoa.0000489487.50219.46
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0275-665X

Abstract

Abstract : ( Can J Anaesth. 2015;62(11):1226–1227) Preprocedural and real-time ultrasound assessment can aid practitioners in the placement of epidural catheters, which can be a technique that is particularly difficult to perform on morbidly obese patients. To investigate this, these authors conducted a study to assess real-time ultrasound guidance in patients who had failure of epidural insertion using pre-procedural ultrasound and the loss-of-resistance technique.