Pain relief and motor function during continuous interscalene analgesia after open shoulder surgery: A prospective, randomized, double-blind comparison between levobupivacaine 0.25%, and ropivacaine 0.25% or 0.4%

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1005-1009

  Borghi, B ^a   Facchini, F ^a   Agnoletti, V ^b   Adduci, A ^b   Lambertini, A ^b   Marini, E ^b   Gallerani, P ^a   Sassoli, V ^a   Luppi, M ^a   Casati, Andrea ^c  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia conduction, interscalene brachial plexus block; Anaesthetics local, ropivacaine, levobupivacaine; Analgesia, postoperative; Nerve block, brachial plexus, continuous peripheral nerve blocks; Postoperative period; Surgery orthopaedic, shoulder

Indexed keywords

KETOPROFEN; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; INFUSION RATE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NAUSEA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOULDER PAIN; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE BLOCK; ORTHOPEDICS; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER;

EID: 33750326696     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0265021506000962     Document Type: Article

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