Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia: Current concepts and future trends

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1265-1269

  Marhofer, Peter ^a   Chan, Vincent W S ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ANESTHESIA; COMPETENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 34247482685     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000260614.32794.7b     Document Type: Article

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