Transversus abdominis plane block: How safe is it?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1758-1759

  Jankovic, Zorica ^a   Ahmad, Niaz ^a   Ravishankar, Nagaraja ^a   Archer, Frances ^b  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOBUPIVACAINE;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTESTINE HEMATOMA; INTESTINE INJURY; LETTER; LIVER INJURY; NEPHRECTOMY; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE PARALYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; ABDOMEN; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SAFETY; SENSORY NERVE;

ABDOMEN; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SAFETY;

EID: 56149121973     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181853619     Document Type: Letter

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