Background Epidural steroid injections are a common method used for the treatment of patients with sciatica. They are usually performed without imaging guidance using anatomical landmarks. However, ...

Epidural anesthesia procedures are performed in approximately 75 percent of all childbirths in the United States; however, failure rates for these procedures are as high as 40 percent across all cases ...

Conducting spinal anaesthesia in patients with elevated body mass index is commonly difficult, yet there are no guidelines to direct best practice. Landmark techniques are sometimes insufficient, ...

2.1 Indications . 2.1.1 Catheterisation of the epidural space, commonly known as an epidural, is often used to provide pain control during labour or during and after surgery on the abdomen, pelvis or ...

Results: There were no differences in the mean depth of the epidural space as measured by the expert or the novice investigator with both the devices (standard ultrasound and Accuro) in both positions ...

The scoliosis progression in adolescents requires close monitoring to timely take treatment measures. Ultrasound imaging is a radiation-free alternative in scoliosis assessment to X-ray, which is ...

Conducting spinal anaesthesia in patients with elevated body mass index is commonly difficult, yet there are no guidelines to direct best practice. Landmark techniques are sometimes insufficient, ...

The epidural procedure took 162 seconds to perform in the real-time ultrasound group compared with 234 seconds in the prepuncture ultrasound group (p<0.01). In the prepuncture ultrasound group, ...