Skin temperature during regional anesthesia of the lower extremity

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1247-1251

  Stevens, Markus F ^a,b   Werdehausen, Robert ^a   Hermanns, Henning ^a   Lipfert, Peter ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; PRILOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; FOOT SURGERY; HUMAN; KNEE SURGERY; LEG; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RELIABILITY; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING;

EID: 33645529004     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000198627.16144.77     Document Type: Article

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