Injuries associated with regional anesthesia in the 1980s and 1990s: A closed claims analysis

Anesthesiology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 143-152

  Lee, Lorri A ^a,b   Posner, Karen L ^a   Domino, Karen B ^a   Caplan, Robert A ^a   Cheney, Frederick W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLINDNESS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EYE INJURY; EYE SURGERY; HEADACHE; HEART ARREST; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SEIZURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; UNITED STATES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INSURANCE; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042646801     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200407000-00023     Document Type: Article

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