Plantar flexion seems more reliable than dorsiflexion with Labat's sciatic nerve block: A prospective, randomized comparison

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 250-254

  Taboada, Manuel ^a,c   Atanassoff, Peter G ^b   Rodríguez, Jaime ^a   Cortés, Joaquín ^a   Del Rio, Sabela ^a   Lagunilla, Juan ^a   Gude, Francisco ^a   Álvarez, Julián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOOT; HALLUX VALGUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT MOBILITY; LABAT SCIATIC NERVE BLOCK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOOT; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NERVE BLOCK; OXIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 10944239542     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000143338.69202.76     Document Type: Article

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