Continuous peripheral nerve blockade for postoperative analgesia

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 602-609

  Le Wendling, Linda ^a,b   Enneking, F Kayser ^a  

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

^b Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous peripheral blockade; Nerve sheath catheters; Peripheral nerve sheath catheters

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ENOXAPARIN; FENTANYL; HEPARIN; KETOROLAC; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; MORPHINE; PIRITRAMIDE; ROPIVACAINE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER OCCLUSION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMORAL NERVE; FOOT SURGERY; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 53549113616     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32830a4be6     Document Type: Review

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