Dose-response characteristics of spinal bupivacaine in volunteers: Clinical implications for ambulatory anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 729-736

  Liu, Spencer S ^a,b   Ware, Paul D ^a   Allen, Hugh W ^a   Neal, Joseph M ^a   Pollock, Julia E ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*

^b VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia: ambulatory; Anesthetic techniques: spinal; Anesthetics, local: bupivacaine; Pain: tourniquet, tetanic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; NERVE BLOCK; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD;

EID: 0029917434     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199610000-00007     Document Type: Article

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