Severe respiratory failure after infraclavicular block with 0.75% ropivacaine: A case report

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 459-461

  Gentili, Marc E ^a,b   Deleuze, Arnaud ^a   Estèbe, Jean Pierre ^a   Lebourg, Michel ^a   Ecoffey, Claude ^a  

^a RENNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Ctr Medico Chirurgical O   (France)

Author keywords

Anesthesia, local; Anesthetic block: complications, infraclavicular; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Nerve: phrenic; Paresis; Respiratory distress

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; KETOPROFEN; MIDAZOLAM; NAROPINE; NIFEDIPINE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INFUSION; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARM; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0036710560     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-8180(02)00387-2     Document Type: Article

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