Abstract
We asked the doctor and the nurse in the ward related to postoperative epidural analgesia about their knowledge of epidural anesthesia complications and correspondence in perioperative anticoagulant therapy or antiplatelet therapy. It turned out that neither the doctor nor the nurse understand epidural anesthesia complications and correspondence in perioperative anticoagulant therapy or antiplatelet therapy enough. Furthermore, 67% of doctors have removed the epidural catheter in anticoagulant therapy until now. Based on these findings, epidural anesthesia as a whole must be taught to each ward. It is necessary to think of this as a hospital problem. In the future, we have to aim for a safer postoperative epidural analgesia.
