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Epidural Anesthesia: The Best Technique

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Epidural anesthesia is an excellent technique for many surgical procedures. Clinicians use several methods for performing the block, but the best method utilizes continuous pressure on the syringe as the needle is advanced.

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  1. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

    C. Philip Larson Jr. MDCM (Professor Emeritus, Anesthesia and Neurosurgery Stanford University Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology (Ret.)

  2. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Richard A. Jaffe MD, PhD (Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery)

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Larson, C.P., Jaffe, R.A. (2017). Epidural Anesthesia: The Best Technique. In: Practical Anesthetic Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42866-6_15

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