'Continuous saline flow technique' prevents air entrainment during intrapleural block

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 92-93

  Nalwaya, P ^a   Dravid, R ^a  

^a KETTERING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; CATHETER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG PRESSURE; NEEDLE; PARIETAL LOBE; PLEURA CAVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RELIABILITY; SAFETY;

ANALGESIA; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PLEURA; PNEUMOTHORAX; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0037243923     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.296810.x     Document Type: Letter

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