Train-of-four stimulation for adductor pollicis neuromuscular monitoring can be applied at the wrist or over the hand

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 149-154

  Nepveu, Marie Eve ^a   Donati, François ^a   Fortier, Louis Philippe ^a  

^a MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMYOGRAPHY; ADDUCTOR POLLICIS MUSCLE; ADULT; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAIN OF FOUR STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WRIST;

EID: 10944268715     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000141525.09320.C8     Document Type: Article

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