Can Ropivacaine and Levobupivacaine Be Used as Test Doses during Regional Anesthesia?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 922-925

  Owen, Medge D ^a   Gautier, Philippe ^b   Hood, David D ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Clinique Ste Anne St Remi ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SLURRED SPEECH; TASTE DISORDER; TINNITUS;

ADULT; AMIDES; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 1642332178     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200404000-00023     Document Type: Article

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