Epidural catheter insertion

The placement of a lumbar #epidural #catheter is performed to facilitate the induction of #anesthesia and analgesia. This video presents the relevant anatomy and placement technique of an epidural catheter. Placement of a catheter in the lumbar epidural space allows one to administer analgesic and local anesthetic agents to a series of dorsal and ventral nerve roots that exit the spinal cord and traverse the epidural space, thereby providing anesthesia or analgesia to specific nerve root distr...