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Instrumentation of Near-term Fetal Sheep for Multivariate Chronic Non-anesthetized Recordings
Published on: October 25, 2015
Inadvertent extra-epidural catheter placement in an infant
Darryl Berkowitz1, Robin D Kaye, Scott D Markowitz
1*Department of Anesthesia, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; and Departments of †Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and ‡Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Abstract:
We report the inadvertent passage of an epidural catheter threaded from the caudal space out of a lumbar intervertebral foramen and into the lower thoracic paravertebral space in an infant. We identified the errant catheter by radiography and removed it without sequelae.
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