Editorial
Using Procedure-Specific Needles: What Is Blunt?
Abstract
In this issue of the Southern Medical Journal, inadvertent intravenous injection of contrast material during a cervical transforaminal injection is described.1 Two conclusions are drawn: Whitacre-type spinal needles do not prevent intravascular injections and a negative aspiration for blood is not a reliable sign of intravascular entry by the needle. Why would there be an editorial about this?This content is limited to qualifying members.
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