Differential Rates of Inadvertent Intravascular Injection during Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Injections Using Blunt-Tip, Pencil-Point, and Catheter-Extension Needles.

Smuck M, Paulus S, Patel A, Demirjian R, Ith MA, Kennedy DJ. Differential Rates of Inadvertent Intravascular Injection during Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Injections Using Blunt-Tip, Pencil-Point, and Catheter-Extension Needles. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.). 2015 Nov;16(16). 2084-9. PMID: 26442619 [PubMed]

Abstract

To quantify the incidence of inadvertent vascular penetration during lumbosacral transforaminal epidural injections using blunt-tip, pencil-point, and catheter-extension needles.