METHOD FOR FIXING EPIDURAL CATHETER AT PROLONGED EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC A61M19/00 

FIELD: medicine, anesthesiology.

SUBSTANCE: it is necessary to carry out the puncture and catheterization of epidural space, fulfill cutaneous incision for the depth of about 4-5 mm along a puncture needle, then the needle should be removed and epidural catheter should be inclined towards the upper pole of cutaneous incision to repeatedly introduce the needle into incision from another point of the puncture. Then the catheter should be applied through the needle from distal end towards the cannula. The needle should be removed, epidural catheter should be kept in subcutaneous fiber for the length of the introduced puncture needle, and its rest part should be withdrawn onto the skin to be fixed. The innovation enables to considerably decrease the risk ion affecting the integrity of epidural catheter , also, at the moment of adding a puncture needle to it to fix it so for prolonged anesthesia.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of fixation.

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