Choice of peripheral nerve block for inguinal herniorrhaphy: Is better the enemy of good?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1073-1075

  White, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERNIA; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LARYNGEAL MASK; NERVE BLOCK; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARAVERTEBRAL BLOCK; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEDATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645526186     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000214179.44007.5F     Document Type: Editorial

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