Audit of motor weakness and premature catheter dislodgement after epidural analgesia in major abdominal surgery

Anaesthesia

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-31

  Konigsrainer I ^a   Bredanger, S ^a   Drewel Frohnmeyer, R ^a   Vonthein, R ^a   Krueger, W A ^a   Konigsrainer A ^a   Unertl, K E ^a   Schroeder, T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRONE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE; SUFENTANIL; THIOPENTAL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER DISLODGEMENT; CATHETERIZATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWER LEG WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ABDOMEN; AGED; GERMANY; INSTRUMENTATION; LEG; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; STANDARD; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRA;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LEG; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PARALYSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 58249092257     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2008.05655.x     Document Type: Article

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