Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine · 2014 · 12 citations · 12 references
It seems that considering the clinical examination of patients before SA focusing on lumbar spinous process status, presence of lumbar deformity, calculation of BMI and radiological signs of lumbar vertebrae can be helpful in predicting SA difficulty.
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Predicting the Difficult Neuraxial Block
Juraj Šprung, Denis L. Bourke, Jeffrey A. Grass et al. · Anesthesia & Analgesia · 1999 · 118 citations