Single-injection paravertebral block compared to general anaesthesia in breast surgery

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 770-774

  Pusch, Franz ^a,b   Freitag, H ^a   Weinstabl, C ^a   Obwegeser, R ^a   Huber, E ^a   Wildling, E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Dept of Anaesthiol/Gen I C ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Breast surgery; Paravertebral; Restricted movement; Single injection; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; BREAST SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; NAUSEA; PAIN; PARAPLEGIA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SEDATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AXILLA; BUPIVACAINE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PARESIS; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032780336     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.1999.430714.x     Document Type: Article

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