Ultrasonography in pain medicine: A sneak peak at the future

Pain Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 223-225

  Narouze, Samer ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTERY INJURY; ARTIFACT; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ROOT; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RELIABILITY; STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; THYROID DISEASE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ANIMALS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; PAIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 48249143188     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2008.00221.x     Document Type: Editorial

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