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Tag: Spinal

  • LMWH and Epidural Catheters – FDA Recommendations

    Stephan Moll, MD writes… The FDA published today a drug safety recommendation to decrease bleeding and paralysis risk for patients receiving epidural catheters and being treated with LMWH  (detailed FDA report is here).  While in many parts of the document the FDA talks specifically about enoxaparin, the communication states that “these new timing recommendations….. will be added to the…