Compound motor action potential recording distinguishes differential onset of motor block of the obturator nerve in response to etidocaine or bupivacaine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 317-320

  Atanassoff, Peter G ^a   Weiss, Branko M ^b   Brull, Sorin J ^a   Horst, Andreas ^c   Külling, Daniel ^b   Stein, Robert ^b   Theiler, Irene ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; ETIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; OBTURATOR NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; ETIDOCAINE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 0030020838     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199602000-00018     Document Type: Article

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