Continuous microspinal anaesthesia: Another perspective on mechanisms inducing cauda equina syndrome

Anaesthesia

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 618-623

  Ilias, W K ^a   Klimscha, W ^b   Skrbensky, G ^c   Weinstabl, R ^c   Widhalm, A ^a  

^a St John of God Hospital Vienna   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic techniques, regional, spinal; Complications, cauda equina syndrome; Equipment, microspinal catheters

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; GLASS;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARTHROSCOPY; BUPIVACAINE; CAUDA EQUINA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES;

EID: 0031829678     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.408-az0514.x     Document Type: Article

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