Use of spinal anaesthesia in day surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 612-616

  Korhonen, Anna Maija ^a  

^a Meilahti Hospital   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ambulatory; Bupivacaine; Chloroprocaine; Ropivacaine; Selective spinal anaesthesia; Unilateral spinal anaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CHLOROPROCAINE; CLONIDINE; DESFLURANE; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; OPIATE; PROCAINE; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; BRADYCARDIA; CONVALESCENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LAPAROSCOPY; LEG; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTPATIENT; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANALGESICS; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HERNIA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LAPAROSCOPY; LOWER EXTREMITY; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POST-DURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROCAINE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33750852560     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32801042c7     Document Type: Review

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