The continuous femoral nerve block catheter for postoperative analgesia: Bacterial colonization, infectious rate and adverse effects

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1045-1049

  Cuvillon, Philippe ^a   Ripart, Jacques ^a   Lalourcey, Laurent ^a   Veyrat, Eric ^a   L'Hermite, Joel ^a   Boisson, Christophe ^a   Thouabtia, Ezzedine ^a   Jacques Eledjam, Jean ^a  

^a Hopital Gaston Doumergue   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAMANDOLE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CELLULITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0034809291     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200110000-00050     Document Type: Article

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