• Anaesth Intensive Care · Apr 2002

    Case Reports

    Another knotted epidural catheter.

    • J Macfarlane and M J Paech.
    • Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Perth, Western Australia.
    • Anaesth Intensive Care. 2002 Apr 1;30(2):240-3.

    AbstractA lumbar epidural catheter inserted in a 24-year-old woman for labour analgesia, and subsequently used for post-caesarean epidural analgesia, proved difficult to remove. After multiple attempts, the entrapped catheter was dislodged intact, revealing a knot near its distal tip. Knotting of an epidural catheter leading to entrapment is a rare complication of epidural catheterization.

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