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Case study: An unusual cause of clotted blood in epidural catheter

Published in: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia
Volume 16 , issue 2 , 2010 , pages: 85–86

DOI: 10.1080/22201173.2010.10872671

Author(s): S Kiran Department of Anaesthesia, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, India , R Taneja Department of Anaesthesia, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, India

Keywords: epidural catheter , blood , IVC thrombus , epidural veins

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Abstract

The failure of an epidural catheter after initially functioning well may be due to kinking, knotting or epidural catheter lumen blockage. The presence of blood in the epidural catheter is usually due to the catheter's traumatic placement or to intravascular migration. We describe an unusual cause of blood in the epidural catheter.

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