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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006 96(2):266-267; doi:10.1093/bja/aei634
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

CORRESPONDENCE

Migration of interscalene catheter—not proven

* E-mail: awhg@btinternet.com

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Editor—We read with interest a recent Case Report in which the authors claim to document the migration of an interscalene catheter from the brachial plexus to the pleural cavity.1 Although the authors provide CT scan images to demonstrate that the tip of the catheter eventually achieved an intrapleural position, they provide no conclusive evidence that the catheter was not initially placed in this position, that is, they do not prove that migration occurred. The proof that they claim is that, having placed the catheter and injected bupivacaine 0.25% (20 ml) down it, and after shoulder manipulation had been performed under general anaesthesia, the patient . . . [Full Text of this Article]

W. Harrop-Griffiths* and N. Denny

London, UK

* E-mail: alain.borgeat@balgrist.ch (originally eletter)

H. Jutzi, S. Blumenthal and A. Borgeat*

Zurich, Switzerland

* E-mail: carolinejenkins@cuhk.edu.hk

C. Jenkins* and M. Karmakar


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