Extraneural versus intraneural stimulation thresholds during ultrasound-guided supraclavicular block

Anesthesiology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1235-1243

  Bigeleisen, Paul E ^a,b,d   Moayeri, Nizar ^c   Groen, Gerbrand J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXTRANEURAL STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRANEURAL STIMULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND GUIDED BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; ADOLESCENT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HAND; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WRIST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEEDLES; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN THRESHOLD; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67049117483     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181a59891     Document Type: Article

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