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Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2017
Fluoroscopic-Guided Lumbar Spinal Drain Insertion for Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Surgery.
- Hamdy Awad, Mohamed Ehab Ramadan, Esmerina Tili, Kathryn Hackett, and Eric C Bourekas.
- From the *Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio; †Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; ‡The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio; and §Department of Radiology, Neurology and Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.
- Anesth. Analg. 2017 Oct 1; 125 (4): 1219-1222.
AbstractWe retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 11 patients who were referred by anesthesiologists to an interventional neuroradiologist for fluoroscopy-guided lumbar spinal drain insertion for thoracic aortic aneurysm repair between January 2010 and June 2015. Successful drain insertion was achieved in all patients. Three (27.3%) patients developed drain-related complications. Fluoroscopy-guided spinal drain insertion is an alternative to the conventional, nonimage-guided, blind technique used by anesthesiologists when they expect to encounter difficulty with insertion or in cases of failed insertion.
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