Ultrasound versus anatomical landmarks for caudal epidural anesthesia in pediatric patients

BACKGROUND: Caudal block is easily performed because the landmarks are superficial. However, the sacral hiatus is small and shallow in pediatric patients. In the present study, we evaluated under general anesthesia whether the distance between the bilateral superolateral sacral crests increased with...

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Autores principales: Abukawa, Yukako, Hiroki, Koichi, Morioka, Nobutada, Iwakiri, Hiroko, Fukada, Tomoko, Higuchi, Hideyuki, Ozaki, Makoto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4499894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26169595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-015-0082-0

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