Infusate contamination in regional anesthesia: What every anesthesiologist should know

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1412-1418

  Head, Stephen ^a,b   Enneking, F Kayser ^c,d  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; HYDROMORPHONE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MORPHINE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ABSCESS; ANESTHESIST; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CATHETER REMOVAL; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENINGITIS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SKIN ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES; DRUG FORMULATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STANDARD;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS; DRUG COMPOUNDING; DRUG CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; NERVE BLOCK;

EID: 53449095303     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000286228.57455.91     Document Type: Review

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