Pharmacokinetics of levobupivacaine 0.5% after superficial or combined (deep and superficial) cervical plexus block in patients undergoing minimally invasive parathyroidectomy

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 333-337

  Pintaric, Tatjana Stopar ^a   Kozelj, Gordana ^b   Stanovnik, Lovro ^c   Casati, Andrea ^d   Hocevar, Marko ^a   Jankovic, Vesna Novak ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c Faculty of Medicine Ljubljana   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Cervical plexus block; Levobupivacaine; Minimally invasive parathyroidectomy; Pharmacokinetics; Regional

Indexed keywords

DIPYRONE; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOTOXICITY; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP CERVICAL PLEXUS BLOCK; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROTOXICITY; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SUPERFICIAL CERVICAL PLEXUS BLOCK; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; VENOUS BLOOD; VERTEBRA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AREA UNDER CURVE; BUPIVACAINE; CERVICAL PLEXUS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50149089405     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2008.01.007     Document Type: Article

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