Paravertebral block: An overview

Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 65-70

  Eid, Hala E A ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic technique; Anaesthetics; Analgesia; Local; Pain; Paravertebral; Postoperative; Regional; Spinal nerve

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BREAST SURGERY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATOME; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROANATOMY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL NERVE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOTOMY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 61849177049     PISSN: 09537112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cacc.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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