The efficacy of skin temperature for block assessment after infraclavicular brachial plexus block

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1034-1036

  Minville, Vincent ^a,d   Gendre, Agnés ^a   Hirsch, Jan ^b   Silva, Stein ^a   Bourdet, Benoît ^a   Barbero, Carole ^a   Fourcade, Olivier ^a   Samii, Kamran ^a   Bouaziz, Hervé ^c  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^d CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALCOHOL; LIDOCAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INFRACLAVICULAR BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; INFRARED THERMOMETER; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NEEDLE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL NERVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ULNAR NERVE; AGED; ARM; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT MONITORING; SAMPLE SIZE; THERMOMETER;

AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NERVE BLOCK; SAMPLE SIZE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETERS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 61949116471     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e318195bf94     Document Type: Article

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