Epidural block: Technical aspects and complications

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 519-523

  Faccenda, Kathryne A ^a   Finucane, Brendan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; IBUPROFEN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NADOPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL; VASOPRESSIN;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; BLEEDING; CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPIDURAL SPACE; GEOMETRY; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; NEEDLE; NERVE INJURY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

EID: 0036792391     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200210000-00008     Document Type: Review

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