Current practice of ultrasound-assisted regional anesthesia

Pain Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-134

  Popovic, Jovan ^a   Morimoto, Maki ^a   Wambold, Daniel ^a   Blanck, Thomas J J ^a   Rosenberg, Andrew D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INCIDENCE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33646397569     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2006.00075.x     Document Type: Review

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