Clonidine and analgesic duration after popliteal fossa nerve blockade: Randomized, double-blind, placebo- controlled study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1916-1920

  Ya Deau, Jacques T ^a,c   La Sala, Vincent R ^a   Paroli, Leonardo ^a   Kahn, Richard L ^a   Jules Elysée, Kethy M ^a   Levine, David S ^b   Wukovits, Barbara L ^a   Lipnitsky, Jane Y ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MEPIVACAINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; ONDANSETRON; PROPOFOL; SCOPOLAMINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSESTHESIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOOT SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPRAXIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POPLITEAL FOSSA NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; VOMITING; AGED; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOOT; INNERVATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44649095683     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318172fe44     Document Type: Article

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