Direction and side used to determine the extent of sensory block after subarachnoid anesthesia do not influence the level of the block

Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-36

  Fassoulaki, A ^a,d   Zotou, M ^b   Pourgiezi, Th ^a   Siafaka, I ^a   Hogan, Q ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anesthesia: subarachnoid; Level of analgesia: direction and side of assessment; Measurements: sensory block

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATOME; HUMAN; SENSORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

AGED; ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAPILLOMA; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0347295989     PISSN: 00015164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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