Lower-extremity peripheral nerve blockade: Essentials of our current understanding

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-35

  Enneking, F Kayser ^a,g   Chan, Vincent ^b   Greger, Jenny ^d   Hadžić, Admir ^c   Lang, Scott A ^e   Horlocker, Terese T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c Greater Houston Anesthesia   (United States)

^d ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^g Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BICARBONATE; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; FENTANYL; HYALURONIDASE; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEPIVACAINE; MORPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL; TRAMADOL;

ACETABULUM FRACTURE; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; BACTEREMIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRADYCARDIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPIDURAL SPACE; HEART ARREST; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMAGING; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; KNEE AMPUTATION; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE SURGERY; LEG; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCIATIC NERVE; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 13244268526     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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