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Milestone Scientific |
CompuFlo Epidural Instrument
When placing an
epidural, it can be
hard to know where
the tip of your nee-
dle is when you're
relying on the tradi-
tional loss-of-resis-
tance technique,
which is both blind
and subjective. But
with this cool
machine, it's very
obvious when you
reach the target. You
feel the pop, you see
it and you hear it, all at once. It works by measuring pressure at the tip
of the needle and providing audio and visual feedback.
If you do a lot of regional anesthesia, you know it can be confound-
ing when you're in the inner spinous ligaments. You've got to get
through the ligamentum flavum to get into the epidural space. You
may think you feel a loss of resistance and that you're in the epidural
space, but are you? Or, if you go too far, you can be responsible for a
dural puncture and a spinal headache, the worst type of headache
anyone can imagine.
This device provides peace of mind for pain management proce-
dures, labor and delivery, or any type of lumbar epidural procedure. It
might also be useful with total joints in the outpatient environment.
• TRIPLE GUIDANCE When you hit the target with the CompuFlo Epidural Instrument,
you feel it, see it and hear it — all at the same time.
