Treatment of acute orofacial pain with lower cervical intramuscular bupivacaine injections: A 1-year retrospective review of 114 patients

Journal of Orofacial Pain

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-64

  Mellick, Larry B ^a   Mellick, Gary A ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Ashtabula County Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Bupivacaine; Cervical; Headache; Injection; Intramuscular; Orofacial; Pain; Paraspinous; Trigeminocervical

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; CERVICAL SPINE; DRUG EFFECT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EYE INJURY; FACE PAIN; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JAW DISEASE; NECK MUSCLE; OTITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHARYNGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TIME; TOOTH DISEASE;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EYE INJURIES; FACIAL PAIN; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MANDIBULAR INJURIES; NECK MUSCLES; OTITIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHARYNGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH DISEASES;

EID: 39449139319     PISSN: 10646655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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