Regional Anesthesia for Hip Fracture Surgery in Older Adults: A Retrospective Comparison of Outcomes Using ACS NSQIP Data [PDF]
Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & RehabilitationIntroduction Surgical fixation of hip fractures in older adults is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We investigated whether regional anesthesia, which excluded epidural, spinal, or combined epidural-spinal, was associated with lower ...
Arissa M. Torrie MD, MHS +6 more
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Removal of a trapped epidural catheter via spinal computed tomography reconstruction and optimal position simulation of the spinal model: A case report [PDF]
Journal of International Medical ResearchContinuous epidural anesthesia is a classic anesthesia method that is widely used in abdominal surgery, labor analgesia, and postoperative analgesia. A long-term analgesic effect is achieved by continuously injecting local anesthetics into the epidural ...
Yang Liu +5 more
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A multicenter survey of pediatric caudal epidural anesthesia practices in resource-limited settings [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCaudal epidural blocks are commonly used anesthesia techniques in children. This multicenter study used an interviewer-administered questionnaire in 28 hospitals to describe pediatric caudal epidural anesthesia practice in the Palestinian healthcare ...
Ramzi Shawahna +6 more
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BMC Anesthesiology, 2023 Background This study used an epidural anesthesia practice kit (model) to evaluate the accuracy of epidural anesthesia using standard techniques (blind) and augmented/mixed reality technology and whether visualization using augmented/mixed reality ...
Tatsuya Hayasaka +6 more
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Conversion Rate of Epidural Analgesia to Caesarean Section Regional or General Anesthesia
Acta Clinica Croatica, 2022 Introduction: Epidural analgesia is acknowledged as the most common method of analgesia during labor. If emergent Caesarean section (CS) is indicated in parturient with existing labor epidural, the need for conversion from epidural analgesia to ...
Ivan Šklebar +4 more
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Thoracic epidural anesthesia and epidural hematoma [PDF]
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 2002 This report involves a 74‐year‐old‐male who developed a thoracic epidural hematoma with paraparesis on the second postoperative day in conjunction with thoracic epidural anesthesia established before surgery for acute abdominal aortic dissection.The finding indicates that laminectomy can be performed successfully as late as three days after diagnosis ...
Persson, J +2 more
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Epidural anesthesia for permanent spinal cord stimulation with a cylindrical type lead: a case series [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2015 Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in trials involving external stimulation are easily conducted under local anesthesia. However, implantation of a permanent SCS system is painful, and can be intolerable in some patients.
Sang Eun Lee +7 more
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Comparison of spinal versus caudal epidural anesthesia in the management of patients undergoing ambulatory perianal surgery: Randomized, prospective study [PDF]
Ķazaķstannyṇ Klinikalyķ Medicinasy, 2021 Objective: To compare levobupivacaine based caudal epidural anesthesia and spinal anesthesia in terms of Intraoperative hemodynamic changes and postoperative pain and patient comfort in subjects undergoing perianal surgery in outpatient setting. Material
Cigdem Bozkurt +4 more
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Instrumentation for Epidural Anesthesia [PDF]
, 2007 A low-cost, sterilizable and unobtrusive instrumentation device was developed to quantify and study the loss-of-resistance technique in epidural anesthesia. In the porcine study, the rapid fall of the applied force, plunger displacement and fluid pressure, and the oral indication of the anesthesiologists were shown to be consistent with the loss-of ...
Allaudin A. Kamani +4 more
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eNeurologicalSci, 2020 Severe neurologic complications following epidural and spinal anesthesia rarely occur. Transverse myelitis has been reported as a rare complication of epidural or spinal anesthesia.
Yuki Kitazaki +7 more
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