Multiple Injections in Axillary Block: Where and How Many?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 192-195

  Koscielniak Nielsen, Zbigniew J ^a  

^a Department of Anaesthesia   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; EDITORIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; INJECTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE INJURY; NEURALGIA; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AXILLA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 33646409072     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.02.008     Document Type: Editorial

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