Fluoroscopy-assisted epidural catheter placement: an exploratory analysis of 303 pre-operative epidurograms.

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Epidural catheters that are placed for post-operative analgesia have a significant failure rate in the first 24 hours. Beginning in 2011, we have used fluoroscopic guidance to place all non-obstetrical epidural catheters. In this retrospective analysis, we hypothesized that the characteristics of dye distribution on an epidurogram obtained immediately after catheter placement would predict clinical catheter function after surgery.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Acta Anaesthesiol Scand

Title: Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Publisher: Wiley

ISSN (Electronic): 1399-6576

ISSN (Print): 0001-5172

Publication date (Electronic): Apr 2016

Volume: 60

Issue: 4

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[1 ] Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.

[2 ] Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.

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DOI: 10.1111/aas.12649

PubMed ID: 26508378

SO-VID: 85d4a5ab-8475-4cf8-827f-79a87cab5fc5

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