An Unusual Cause of Clotted Blood in Epidural Catheter

Shashi Kiran; Rashmi Taneja

doi:10.1080/22201173.2010.10872671

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An Unusual Cause of Clotted Blood in Epidural Catheter

Shashi Kiran, Rashmi Taneja

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Shashi Kiran,, India
Rashmi Taneja,, India

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Abstract

The failure of an epidural catheter after initially functioning well may be due to kinking, knotting or epidural catheter lumen blockage. The presence of blood in the epidural catheter is usually due to the catheter's traumatic placement or to intravascular migration. We describe an unusual cause of blood in the epidural catheter.

Keywords

Post operative analgesia, blood, epidural catheter,IVC thrombus

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