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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Device for Identifying Epidural Space Shows Promise

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New Orleans—Preliminary analysis of data from an ongoing multicenter trial suggests that epidural analgesia may be about to take its most radical turn in more than a century. The analysis found that a novel computerized injection pump technology is as successful in identifying the epidural space as are fluoroscopy and loss of resistance, which one of the study’s authors calls a “game changer” for the practice.

“This technology originally comes from the dental