A modified mid-femoral approach to the sciatic nerve block: A correlation between evoked motor response and sensory block

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 528-530

  Pianezza, Antoine ^a,b   Gilbert, Marie Luce ^a   Minville, Vincent ^a   Filsinger, Daren ^a   Gobert, Quentin ^a   Guérot, Alain ^a   Fuzier, Régis ^a   Fourcade, Olivier ^a  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG MECHANISM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOOT SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCIATIC NERVE; TIBIA; TIBIAL NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 34547578875     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000269490.67934.db     Document Type: Article

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