Your daily dose of clinical tips and quips: Soaker-type catheters.
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“A soaker-type catheter, also referred to as a diffusion or wound catheter, is simply fenestrated tubing that is sterilely placed at a painful site for the continuous or intermittent administration of local anesthetics.”
-Christine Egger, DVM, MVSc, DACVA, and Lydia Love, DVM
From Local and regional anesthesia techniques, Part 1: Overview and five simple techniques