A primiparous 28-year-old woman undergoing augmentation of labour requested epidural analgesia. During the apparently uneventful insertion, the catheter snapped and a fragment was retained in her back. The management options for labour analgesia, the optimal methods of locating the retained fragment and the indications for surgical removal are discussed.
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