• Eur J Anaesthesiol · Jul 2010

    Case Reports

    Late intravascular migration of a previously well functioning labour epidural catheter.

    • Tom Fivez, Sam Deblonde, and Marc Van de Velde.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
    • Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2010 Jul 1;27(7):634-6.

    AbstractIntravascular epidural catheters may result in insufficient labour analgesia or can produce potentially lethal complications following an epidural top-up. We report a case of a previously well functioning epidural catheter positioned epidurally using a combined spinal epidural anaesthesia technique, which subsequently was found to be intravascular. The literature is reviewed.

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