Uniform Distribution of Skin-Temperature Increase After Different Regional-Anesthesia Techniques of the Lower Extremity

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-78

  Werdehausen, Robert ^a   Braun, Sebastian ^a   Hermanns, Henning ^a   Freynhagen, Rainer ^a   Lipfert, Peter ^a   Stevens, Markus F ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidural anesthesia; Nerve block; Skin temperature; Spinal anesthesia; Sympathetic block; Thermographic imaging

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PRILOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; LEG; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; THERMOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845705844     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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