Seizure after levobupivacaine for interscalene brachial plexus block

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1188-1190

  Crews, James C ^a   Rothman, Theodore E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLONIC SEIZURE; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TIC;

EID: 0037377845     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000053235.07186.39     Document Type: Article

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