I Chucked-Out the Tube! Broken Epidural Catheter due to Patient Misadventure

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1 Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Ballari - 583104, Karnataka, India

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Anesthesia, Epidural; Catheter, Epidural; Breakage; Epidural, Thoracic; Epidural, Paramedian

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