One hundred years later, I can still make your heart stop and your legs weak: The relationship between regional anesthesia and local anesthetic toxicity

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 543-544

  Horlocker, Terese T ^a   Neal, Joseph M ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LONG ACTING DRUG;

CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVICE INFECTION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EXPERIENCE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROTOXICITY; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; METHODOLOGY; NERVE BLOCK;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK;

EID: 0036853950     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/rapm.2002.37125     Document Type: Article

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