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|Articles|November 9, 2009

Daily Dose

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

 

 


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