The Effects of Three Different Approaches on the Onset Time of Sciatic Nerve Blocks with 0.75% Ropivacaine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 242-247

  Taboada, Manuel ^a   Álvarez, Julián ^a   Cortés, Joaquín ^a   Rodríguez, Jaime ^a   Rabanal, Susana ^a   Gude, Francisco ^a   Atanassoff, Alexander ^b   Atanassoff, Peter G ^c  

^a Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT SURGERY; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCIATIC NERVE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0346733075     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000093311.29111.59     Document Type: Article

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