"Credentials" in Ultrasound-Guided Regional Blocks

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 587-588

  Tsui, Ban C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; IMAGING SYSTEM; LETTER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; ULTRASOUND; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CREDENTIALING; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751338290     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.08.003     Document Type: Letter

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