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barbotage

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barbotage /bar·bo·tage/ (bahr″bo-tahzh´) [Fr.] repeated alternate injection and withdrawal of fluid with a syringe, as in gastric lavage or administration of an anesthetic agent into the subarachnoid space by alternate injection of part of the anesthetic and withdrawal of cerebrospinal fluid into the syringe.
bar·bo·tage (bärb-täzh)
n.
The production of spinal anesthesia in which a portion of the anesthetic solution is injected into the cerebral spinal fluid, which is then aspirated into the syringe and a second portion of the contents of the syringe is injected. The partial reinjections and aspirations are repeated until the contents of the syringe are used.

barbotage [bahr″bo-tahzh´] (Fr.)
repeated alternate injection and withdrawal of fluid with a syringe, as in gastric lavage or administration of an anesthetic agent into the subarachnoid space by alternate injection of part of the anesthetic and withdrawal of cerebrospinal fluid into the syringe.

barbotage
[Fr.] repeated alternate injection and withdrawal of fluid with a syringe, as in gastric lavage or administration of an anesthetic agent into the subarachnoid space by alternate injection of part of the anesthetic and withdrawal of cerebrospinal fluid into the syringe.


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4 ml) was inj ectedwithin 60 seconds without barbotage through a 25 gauge Whitacre needle, after which an epidural catheter was inserted 3 to 4 cm into the epidural space.
 
 
 
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