Open AccessThe Relationship Between Patients’ Anthropometric Characteristics and Depth of Spinal Needle Insertion
Author(s) -
Mohammad Reza Razavizadeh,
Mohammad Reza Fazel,
Mahdi Mosavi,
Mojtaba Sehat
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anesthesiology and pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2228-7531
pISSN - 2228-7523
DOI - 10.5812/aapm.24993
Subject(s) - medicine , anthropometry , kowsar , surgery
The results of this study show that there is a strong relationship between depth of needle insertion and BMI, and between depth and the weight/height ratio; appropriate depths can be determined according to the equations obtained.
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