Examination of The Relationshıp Between Body Mass Index And The Skin-Epidural Space Distance

The research was carried out in the block room in the preoperating room of Dokuz Eylül University Practice and Research Hospital and with 42 volunteer operating room workers aged between 18-59 years. Height, weight and waist circumference measurements were made with standard measuring instruments, and other measurements were completed by ultrasonography (USG) separately by an anesthesiologist and a radiologist. For ultrasonographic evaluation, left lateral decubitus, right lateral decubitus and in sitting position, skin-dural junction, skin-vertebra corpus, anterior complex distances, upper and lower SIAS levels were examined with convex probe as transverse median. In addition, abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness measurements were made with a linear probe in the supine position. The statistical correlations of all measurements were examined.