Ultrasound-guided anterior approach to sciatic nerve block: A comparison with the posterior approach

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 660-665

  Ota, Junichi ^a   Sakura, Shinichi ^a   Hara, Kaoru ^a   Saito, Yoji ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; MEPIVACAINE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIATIC NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HIP; HISTOLOGY; KNEE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; SUPINE POSITION;

ADULT; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERONEAL NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SUPINE POSITION; TIBIAL NERVE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 59649103482     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818fc252     Document Type: Article

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