A survey of 1000 consecutive epidural catheter placements performed by inexperienced anesthesia trainees

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 13-19

  Dalsasso, M ^a   Grandis, M ^a   Innocente, F ^a   Veronese, S ^a   Ori, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anesthesia epidural; Education; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INEXPERIENCED ANESTHESIA TRAINEE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREMEDICATION; RADICULOPATHY; TACHYCARDIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CATHETERIZATION; EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64549137095     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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