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Difficult removal of a wire-reinforced epidural catheter
Harold L Pierre1, Brian M Block, Christopher L Wu
1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
|April 30, 2003
Abstract:
We report a case of epidural catheter shearing, an uncommon complication of removal of a wire-reinforced epidural catheter. The catheter was removed without incident, and with the tip intact, after we allowed the patient to relax for 3 hours, placing the patient in the lateral decubitus position, and placing continuous tension on the catheter itself so as to let it "work its way out".