Ultrasound and Regional Anesthesia Technique: Are There Really Ultrasound Guidance Technical Limits in Sciatic Nerve Blocks?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-282

  Danelli, Giorgio ^a   Ghisi, Daniela ^a   Ortu, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG MECHANISM; FOOT SURGERY; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; LETTER; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCIATIC NERVE; ULTRASOUND;

HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 42149132879     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2008.01.008     Document Type: Letter

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