Infectious risk of continuous peripheral nerve blocks

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 182-188

  Capdevila, Xavier ^a   Bringuier, Sophie ^a   Borgeat, Alain ^b  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b ORTHOPEDIC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BALGRIST   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ASEPSIS; CATHETER INFECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NERVE BLOCK; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; INDWELLING CATHETER; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 58749107392     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318190bd5b     Document Type: Note

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