Intraneural injection of local anesthetics during ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve block may lead to nerve injury [5]

Anesthesiology

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1245-1246

  Al Nasser, Bassam ^a  

^a Clinique du Parc Saint Lazare   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; ROPIVACAINE;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PUNCTURE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 34249656863     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.anes.0000265460.54744.6f     Document Type: Letter

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