Ultrasound versus landmark-based technique for ilioinguinal-iliohypogastric nerve blockade in children: The implications on plasma levels of ropivacaine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1488-1492

  Weintraud, Marion ^a   Lundblad, Märit ^b   Kettner, Stephan C ^a   Willschke, Harald ^a   Kapral, Stephan ^a   Lönnqvist, Per Arne ^b   Koppatz, Karl ^a   Turnheim, Klaus ^a   Bsenberg, Adrian ^c   Marhofer, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROPIVACAINE; AMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; INFANT; INGUINAL HERNIA; INGUINAL REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; NERVE BLOCK; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; INJECTION; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; INFANT; INJECTIONS; NERVE BLOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 65349130056     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31819cb1f3     Document Type: Article

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