Outpatient management of continuous peripheral nerve catheters placed using ultrasound guidance: An experience in 620 patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1436-1443

  Swenson, Jeffrey D ^a   Bay, Nathan ^a   Loose, Evelyn ^a   Bankhead, Byron ^a   Davis, Jennifer ^a   Beals, Timothy C ^a   Bryan, Nathaniel A ^a   Burks, Robert T ^a   Greis, Patrick E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CATHETER; CATHETER REMOVAL; CONTINUOUS PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCK; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OUTPATIENTS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 33845667956     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000243393.87912.9c     Document Type: Article

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