Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Mar 2017
Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative StudyEvaluation of Ultrasound-Assisted Thoracic Epidural Placement in Patients Undergoing Upper Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery: A Randomized, Double-Blind Study.
The placement of thoracic epidurals can be technically challenging and requires a thorough understanding of neuraxial anatomy. Although ultrasound imaging of the thoracic spine has been described, no outcome studies on the use of this imaging have been performed. We evaluated whether preprocedural ultrasound of the thoracic spine would facilitate the process of epidural catheterization. ⋯ NCT02785055 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/).