Ultrasound-guided peripheral catheter placement for upper limb amputation in a 12-year-old boy: Possible phantom limb pain prevention?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 335-337

  Ivani, Giorgio ^a   Mossetti, Valeria ^a   Andreacchio, Antonio ^a  

^a REGINA MARGHERITA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ANALGESIA; ARM AMPUTATION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EWING SARCOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MALE; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PHANTOM PAIN; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ULTRASOUND; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AMPUTATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BONE NEOPLASMS; BUPIVACAINE; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METHYL ETHERS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PHANTOM LIMB; PROPOFOL; SARCOMA, EWING'S; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 40149086086     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02444.x     Document Type: Letter

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