Epidural Placement Enhanced With Simple Equation, Ultrasound
by Zangani • 10 November 2011 • Pain News
A simple equation that uses a patient’s height and weight to estimate the distance from the skin to the epidural space appears to work when applied to some of the most challenging patients, the morbidly obese. The study was presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (abstract 30).