Epidural catheter cutting: mechanisms and management

Epidural catheter insertion can be followed by different complications appearing at its insertion, maintenance and removal. They can be distinguished in haemorrhagic, infectious and mechanical, when directly involving the device with different mechanisms: obstruction, kinking, knotting, displacement, migration, and breakage, or more frequently cutting [1]. Our experience, even limited to a single case, illustrates well this uncommon and unexpected event.

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