Lower extremity nerve blocks

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 403-408

  Taboada, Manuel ^a   Atanassoff, Peter G ^b  

^a University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Femoral nerve block; Lumbar plexus block; Postoperative analgesia; Regional anesthesia; Sciatic nerve block

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MEPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ANESTHESIA; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMORAL NERVE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; SIDE EFFECT; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING;

EID: 4944231212     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200410000-00009     Document Type: Review

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