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Epidural anesthesia and analgesia in liver resection
Idit Matot1, Olga Scheinin, Ahmed Eid
1Department of Anesthesiology, Hadassah University Medical Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|October 29, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
In patients undergoing major liver resection, the decision to introduce an epidural catheter and the timing of its removal should be made with care because of the prolonged changes in platelet count and in prothrombin time that develop in some patients.