Regional Anesthesia in the Immunocompromised Patient

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 334-345

  Horlocker, Terese T ^a   Wedel, Denise J ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BUPIVACAINE; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DIDANOSINE; DOCETAXEL; FENTANYL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE VACCINE; HEPARIN; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PACLITAXEL; STAVUDINE; SURAMIN; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; VINCA ALKALOID; VINCRISTINE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALCOHOLISM; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILDBIRTH; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG SAFETY; EAR INFECTION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEVER; GENITAL HERPES; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEAD INJURY; HERPES LABIALIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOFIBRINOGENEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFLUENZA; LIMB WEAKNESS; METASTASIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS ABSCESS; RECURRENT CANCER; RECURRENT INFECTION; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL HEMATOMA; SPINE METASTASIS; SPLENOMEGALY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL STRESS; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TUMOR; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MENINGITIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 33745936821     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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