The effects of clonidine added to mepivacaine for paronychia surgery under axillary brachial plexus block

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1179-1183

  Iohom, Gabriella ^a   Machmachi, Adnane ^a   Diarra, Désiré Pascal ^a   Khatouf, Mohammed ^a   Boileau, Sylvie ^a   Dap, François ^b   Boini, Stéphanie ^c   Mertes, Paul Michel ^a   Bouaziz, Herve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b Ctr Hospitalier Univ de Nancy   (France)

^c Marin Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; MEPIVACAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; PARONYCHIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; THUMB RECONSTRUCTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLONIDINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PARONYCHIA;

EID: 15544382004     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000145239.17477.FC     Document Type: Article

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