Open AccessCervical epidural puncture guided by fluoroscopy in comparison to acoustic signals: Clinical results
Author(s) -
Hassan Ali,
Ymr Toble,
Yya Tolba
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
saudi journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1658-354X
pISSN - 0975-3125
DOI - 10.4103/sja.sja_52_17
Subject(s) - medicine , fluoroscopy , radiology
The increasing cases of the cervical epidural but the practitioners in need for a new method to decrease the safety of the injection and to improve the learning curve of the trainee. Furthermore, it should replace the potentially hazards, conventional one, which is the fluoroscope. Acoustic signals were tested for this purpose.