Open AccessComparative study of Episure™ AutoDetect™ syringe versus glass syringe for identification of epidural space in lower thoracic epidural
Author(s) -
Edward Johnson Joseph,
Pachaimuthu Elango,
Vasukinathan Arokyamuthu,
Muthushenbagam Muthukrishnan,
Dinesh Kumar Kannan,
B. Dhanalakshmi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.160933
Subject(s) - medicine , epidural space , syringe , anesthesia , surgery , demographics , demography , psychiatry , sociology
Episure™ AutoDetect™ syringe (EAS), a spring-loaded syringe, is a new loss-of-resistance syringe used to identify epidural space. It has an advantage of subjective and objective confirmation in identifying epidural space over glass syringe (GS) for beginners. We compared the performance of EAS with that of GS for identifying epidural space in lower thoracic epidurals.