Thoracic epidural analgesia provided superior analgesia ... TEA and 61 of whom underwent intercostal local analgesia with a catheter placed at the surgical incision site. Maximal postoperative ...

Placement of a catheter in the lumbar epidural space allows for the administration of analgesic and local anesthetic agents to a series of dorsal- and ventral-nerve roots that exit the spinal cord ...

Excessive motor weakness may indicate a too high rate of epidural infusion, migration of the catheter into the dura or the formation ... in poor analgesia (Dougherty and Lister, 2004). For thoracic ...

An epidural is an anesthetic delivered through a catheter (small tube) into a potential space outside the spinal cord called the epidural space. Using this catheter, we are able to infuse a solution ...

It is also possible to perform upper abdominal and thoracic procedures under epidural ... Once space is found a thin flexible epidural catheter will be inserted through the needle and left in ...

Bacteria reach the epidural space through either hematogenous dissemination (commonly due to bloodstream infection associated with a central venous catheter, intravenous drug use, or catheter ...

Excessive motor weakness may indicate a too high rate of epidural infusion, migration of the catheter into the dura or the formation ... in poor analgesia (Dougherty and Lister, 2004). For thoracic ...