Practice advisory on liposuction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1478-1490

  Iverson, Ronald E ^a,b   Lynch, Dennis J ^a  

^a Plastic Surgery Center ^*

^b Plastic Surgery Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD TOXICITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; COMA; CONVULSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; FLUID BALANCE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIP DISEASE; LIPOSUCTION; METALLIC TASTE; NEUROTOXICITY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SAFETY; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SLURRED SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASTE AVERSION; TEAMWORK; TINNITUS; TONGUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VASODILATATION; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATHETERIZATION; FAT EMBOLISM; INSTRUMENTATION; LIPECTOMY; LUNG EMBOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BODY MASS INDEX; CATHETERIZATION; EMBOLISM, FAT; EPINEPHRINE; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; LIPECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 3843089772     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000111591.62685.F8     Document Type: Review

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