Axillary brachial plexus block for treatment of severe forearm ischemia after arterial cannulation in an extremely low birth-weight infant

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 681-684

  Breschan, Christian ^a   Kraschl, Raimund ^a   Jost, Robert ^a   Marhofer, Peter ^b   Likar, Rudolf ^a  

^a LKH Klagenfurt ^*  (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arterial cannulation; Axillary plexus block; Extremely low birth weight infant; Limb ischemia

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; HEPARIN; PIRITRAMIDE;

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FOREARM; HUMAN; INFANT; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB PAIN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATATION;

AMPUTATION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BUPIVACAINE; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FINGERS; FOREARM; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NECROSIS; NERVE BLOCK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 4043178490     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2004.01282.x     Document Type: Article

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