Identification of the lumbar interspinous spaces: Palpation versus ultrasound

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 538-540

  Whitty, Robert ^a   Moore, Michael ^a   Macarthur, Alison ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

EID: 38549114470     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31816069d9     Document Type: Article

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