Fluoroscopic imaging for technically difficult spinal anesthesia.
We report a case of technically difficult spinal anesthesia in a morbidly obese woman, which was successfully implemented under fluoroscopy. Although radiological imaging is well known to guide various regional anesthetic procedures, until now, the utility of fluoroscopic imaging to facilitate spinal anesthesia had not been reported.
Eidelman
Anthony
A
Department of Anesthesiology, Caritas St Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Brighton, MA 02135-2997, USA. anthony_eidelman@yahoo.com
Shulman
Mark S
MS
Novak
Gordon M
GM
D000328:Adult; D000775:Anesthesia, Spinal / Q000379:methods*; D001182:Arthroscopy; D001845:Bone Cysts / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*