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Epidural Anesthesia for Laminectomy Lead Placement in Spinal Cord Stimulation
- Source :
- Anesthesia & Analgesia. 105:1458-1461
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2007.
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Abstract
- Background Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is used to treat chronic pain and requires an awake patient for optimized lead positioning to locate paresthesias. Epidural anesthesia may be a suitable anesthetic but has not been evaluated. Methods We performed an open-label, prospective, observational, single-center study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of laminectomy lead placement under epidural anesthesia for the treatment of neuropathic chronic pain. Results The results in our study demonstrate that epidural anesthesia is a suitable technique for SCS lead implant. Conclusions This is the first study using epidural anesthesia for SCS lead implants by laminectomy. The technique seems to be safe and effective.
- Subjects :
- Anesthesia, Epidural
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Electric Stimulation Therapy
medicine
Humans
Prospective Studies
Prospective cohort study
Lead (electronics)
Aged
business.industry
Laminectomy
Chronic pain
Middle Aged
Spinal cord
medicine.disease
Pain, Intractable
Surgery
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Spinal Cord
Anesthesia
Anesthetic
Female
Implant
Lead Placement
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00032999
- Volume :
- 105
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0068c0355612ed0d00c90b3988838163