Epidural anesthesia is the mainstay choice to provide parturient patient pain relief during the
laboring process. However, the incorrect placement of an epidural catheter can result in …

Identification of bony landmarks by palpation can be difficult in obese pregnant women, and
obesity is associated with higher epidural catheter failure rates [1]. Ultrasound may help …

3. Sharma SK, Rogers BB, Alexander JM, et al. A randomized trial of the effects of antibiotic
prophylaxis on epidural related fever in labor. Anesth Analg. 2014; 118: 604–610. 4. Curtin …

BACKGROUND: Prepuncture lumbar ultrasound scanning is a reliable tool to facilitate labor
epidural needle placement in nonobese parturients. In this study, we assessed prepuncture …

Placement of an epidural catheter in parturients can be challenging because the anatomic
changes of pregnancy may make it difficult to palpate an ideal insertion point or detect loss …

Erratum to: Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth 2015 DOI 10.1007/s12630-015-0441-9. In the article
entitled:" Real-time ultrasound-guided epidural catheter insertion in obese parturients" …

To the Editor, Emerging literature suggests the usefulness of preprocedural ultrasound (US)
assessment of the lumbar spine 1 to facilitate epidural catheter insertion. There are also …

Background. Previously, Balki determined the Pearson correlation coefficient with the use of
ultrasound (US) was 0.85 in morbidly obese parturients. We aimed to determine if the use of …

Placement of an epidural catheter in parturients can be challenging because the anatomic
changes of pregnancy may make it difficult to palpate an ideal insertion point or detect loss …

We evaluated whether real-time ultrasound-guided epidural block is more suitable for
overweight parturients undergoing analgesic labor than traditional palpation positioning …