Combined Lumbar-Plexus and Sciatic-Nerve Blocks: An Analysis of Plasma Ropivacaine Concentrations

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 417-421

  Vanterpool, Stephanie ^a   Steele, Susan M ^b   Nielsen, Karen C ^b   Tucker, Marcy ^b   Klein, Stephen M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lumbar plexus block; Plasma concentration; Ropivacaine; Sciatic nerve block

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 33748113290     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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