Is there a bilateral block of the thoracic sympathetic chain after unilateral intrapleural analgesia?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 360-367

  Ramajoli, Felice ^a,b   De Amici, Donatella ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; TELETHERMOGRAPHY; VISCERAL PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; BUPIVACAINE; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLEURA; SPLANCHNIC NERVES; THERMOGRAPHY; THORACIC NERVES;

EID: 0031875655     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199808000-00023     Document Type: Article

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