TRANSDUCING EPIDURAL PRESSURE AS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO CORRECTLY IDENTIFY EPIDURAL SPACE COMPARED TO LOR TECHNIQUE.

Epidural space identification has traditionally been doneusing the "loss of resistance " technique which, unfortunately, is not full proof and the difficulties we face sometimes is when1.    The space is not appreciated satisfactorily2.    We land up in a so called false space3.    We overshoot the epidural space, failing to appreciate by LORHere we have a promising and more scientific approach using pressure waveforms by transducing the epidural pressures, which appear as pul satile waveforms and in synchrony with heart rate.