Neurologic deficit after peripheral nerve block: What to do?

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 353-355

  Borgeat, A ^a  

^a ORTHOPEDIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BALGRIST   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nerve block; Nervous system; Neurology

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; PATIENT POSITIONING; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURGEON; TREATMENT INDICATION;

HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 21644456186     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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