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2019 Oct-Dec


J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol


35


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Predictors of difficult epidural placement in pregnant women: A trainees’ perspective.

Authors

Rajagopalan S, Shah K, Guffey D, Tran C, Suresh M, Wali A
J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol. 2019 Oct-Dec; 35(4):548-552.
PMID: 31920244.

Abstract

Epidural analgesia is believed to be the most difficult technique to learn for a trainee. The reason for this is not only inexperience of the provider and the complexity of the technique but also patient factors like obesity, spinal deformity and others which makes the epidural placement difficult. The aim of this study was to evaluate some of the common risk factors for difficult epidural placement as perceived by the anesthesia providers during training, with varying level of experience.