Local Anesthesia for Knee Arthroscopy: Efficacy and Cost Benefits

The American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 50-53

  Shapiro, Matthew S ^a   Safran, Marc R ^a   Crockett, Heber ^a   Finerman, Gerald A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SEDATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ARTHROSCOPY; BUPIVACAINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDAZOLAM; MIDDLE AGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0028817004     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/036354659502300108     Document Type: Article

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