Reduced Injection Pressures Using a Compressed Air Injection Technique (CAIT): An In Vitro Study

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 168-173

  Tsui, Ban C H ^a   Knezevich, Mark P ^a   Pillay, Jennifer J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Injection pressure; Intraneural injection; Nerve block techniques; Nerve injury

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; COMPRESSED AIR INJECTION TECHNIQUE; DEVICE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEEDLE; PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRINGE;

ADULT; AIR PRESSURE; ANESTHESIOLOGY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIANS; SYRINGES; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 39449099357     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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