The ultrasound-guided rectus sheath block as an anaesthetic in adult paraumbilical hernia repair

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 499-500

  Phua, D S K ^a   Phoo, J W H ^a   Koay, C K ^a  

^a CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; NERVE BLOCK; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECTUS SHEATH BLOCK; SEDATION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; FEMALE; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; NERVE BLOCK; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 66249120338     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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