The use of electrical stimulation to monitor epidural needle advancement in a porcine model

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1611-1613

  Tsui, Ban C H ^a   Emery, Derek ^a   Uwiera, Richard R E ^a   Finucane, Brendan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD LESION; SWINE;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; DURA MATER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEEDLES; PILOT PROJECTS; SWINE;

EID: 19044393876     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000150600.28332.72     Document Type: Article

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