The feasibility and complications of the continuous popliteal nerve block: A 1001-case survey

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 229-233

  Borgeat, Alain ^a   Blumenthal, Stephan ^a   Lambert, Maud ^a   Theodorou, Panagiotis ^a   Vienne, Patrick ^a  

^a ORTHOPEDIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BALGRIST   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE; VALDECOXIB;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN TOXICITY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CATHETER; CONTINUOUS POPLITEAL NERVE BLOCK; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG INFUSION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT SURGERY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTRAPOPLITEAL FOSSA ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PERINEURIUM; POPLITEAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33745835467     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000221462.87951.8d     Document Type: Article

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