Electrical nerve localization: Effects of cutaneous electrode placement and duration of the stimulus on motor response

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1526-1530

  Hadzic, Admir ^a   Vloka, Jerry D ^b   Claudio, Richard E ^b   Hadzic, Nihad ^b   Thys, Daniel M ^b   Santos, Alan C ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SKIN ELECTRODE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE BLOCK; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 2542492934     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200406000-00027     Document Type: Article

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