Multiple kinking in a single epidural catheter; rare complication or a defect in the catheter?

Archives of Anesthesia and Critical Care

Mridul Dhar¹  Devitha Anilakumari¹  Vaishali Gupta²  Mohammed Shafiq Shajahan² 

[1] Department of Anesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India..;Department of Anesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.;

关键词: Epidural catheter;    malpositioned epidural;    kinked epidural;    paediatric epidural;   

DOI  :  10.18502/aacc.v7i3.6914

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This a case of multiple kinks observed in an epidural cather placed in a paediatric patient. There have been reports mentioning two or three kinks in an epidural catheter, but we found a particularly rare scenario in which six kinks could be appreciated in the epidural catheter.

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