Electrical nerve stimulation or ultrasound guidance for lateral sagittal infraclavicular blocks: a randomized, controlled, observer-blinded, comparative study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1910-1915

  Sauter, Axel R ^a,b   Dodgson, Michael S ^b   Stubhaug, Audun ^b   Halstensen, Anne Marie ^b   Klaastad, Øivind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; EPHEDRINE; MEPIVACAINE; ONDANSETRON; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AXILLARY ARTERY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFRACLAVICULAR BLOCK; INJECTION SITE; INJECTION SITE DISCOMFORT; INJECTION SITE PAIN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TOURNIQUET; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPINEPHRINE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; TOURNIQUETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 44649094561     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318173280f     Document Type: Article

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