Is loss of resistance to normal saline preferred to identify the epidural space : a survey of Canadian pediatric anesthesiologists?
LOR to normal saline is the preferred method for identification of the epidural space in children of all age groups. The suggestion by experts that LOR to air should be used in neonates and infants was not supported by the practice of pediatric anesthesiologists across Canada.
These results indicate that physicians are quite susceptible to accepting the recommendations of decision support systems, and that quality assurance and validation of such systems is therefore of paramount importance.