The effect of injectate conductivity on the electric field with the nerve stimulator needle: A computer simulation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1427-1432

  Ercole, Ari ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INJECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; NERVE BLOCK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTATICS; INJECTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEEDLES; NERVE BLOCK;

EID: 53449087024     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318181f310     Document Type: Article

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