Complications of peripheral nerve blocks

Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 133-140

  Berg, Anthony P ^a   Rosenquist, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus; Complications; Lumbar plexus; Peripheral nerve block; Regional anesthesia

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; APNEA; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BLEEDING; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECCHYMOSIS; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMORAL NERVE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEADACHE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOMA; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MUSCLE TOXICITY; MYALGIA; MYDRIASIS; NECK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PULSE RATE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN INFECTION; SWELLING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TINNITUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 34250818730     PISSN: 1084208X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.trap.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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