An evaluation of general and spinal anesthesia techniques for prostate brachytherapy in a day surgery setting

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1656-1658

  Flaishon, Ron ^a   Ekstein, Perla ^a   Matzkin, Haim ^a   Weinbroum, Avi A ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; DIAZEPAM; DIPYRONE; FENTANYL; IODINE 125; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; MOBILIZATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; SEDATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 28344434646     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000184205.43759.55     Document Type: Article

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