Comparison of lidocaine and saline for epidural top-up during combined spinai-epidural anesthesia in volunteers

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 574-577

  Trautman III, Walter J ^a   Liu, Spencer S ^a,b   Kopacz, Dan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DERMATOME; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERANCE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE BLOCK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN SENSATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031038753     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199703000-00020     Document Type: Article

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