Ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blockade

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-32

  Brull, Richard ^a   Perlas, Anahi ^b   Chan, Vincent W S ^b  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; OPERATING ROOM; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SCIATIC NERVE;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; KNEE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 33846543197     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0018-6     Document Type: Review

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