Does fluoroscopic guidance increase the incidence of thoracic epidural catheter placement within the epidural space?
Fluoroscopic guidance for thoracic epidural catheter placement improves accurate positioning and may reduce hospital length of stay.
Fluoroscopic guidance increases the incidence of epidural catheter positioning within the epidural space and may reduce postanesthesia care unit and hospital lengths of stay. Future work should validate the effectiveness of this approach.This clinical trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02678039).
Parra et al. (Tue,) studied this question.