Risk of Epidural Hematoma after Neuraxial Techniques in Thrombocytopenic Parturients: A Report from the Multicenter

Linden O Lee1, Brian T Bateman, Sachin Kheterpal

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan (L.O.L., S.K., T.T.K., M.H., M.E.B.); Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (B.T.B.); Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon (M.F.A., K.W.H.); Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (M.M.); Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina (C.G.G.); and Department of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York (J.B.). Department of Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Beaumont Health, Dearborn, Michigan Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York Department of Anesthesiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma St. Joseph Mercy, Ann Arbor, Michigan Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Department of Anesthesiology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut Beaumont Health, Farmington Hills, Michigan Bronson Healthcare, Battle Creek, Michigan Bronson Healthcare, Kalamazoo, Michigan Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York Holland Hospital, Holland, Michigan Mercy Health, Muskegon, Michigan Department of Anesthesiology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Pontiac, Michigan St. Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia, Michigan Sparrow Health System, Lansing, Michigan Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Anesthesiology
|April 7, 2017
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