Accidental intravenous levobupivacaine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1027-1029

  Kopacz, Dan J ^a   Allen, Hugh W ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE;

AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; DISORIENTATION; DROWSINESS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SLURRED SPEECH; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VENOUS BLOOD;

ACCIDENTS; AGED; AKATHISIA, DRUG-INDUCED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BUPIVACAINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; ISOMERISM; RESPIRATION;

EID: 0032834088     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199910000-00038     Document Type: Article

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