Minimal local anesthetic volume for peripheral nerve block: A new ultrasound-guided, nerve dimensionybased method

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 242-246

  Eichenberger, Urs ^a   Stoc̈kli, Stefan ^a   Marhofer, Peter ^b   Huber, Gudrun ^b   Willimann, Patrick ^a   Kettner, Stephan C ^b   Pleiner, Johannes ^b   Curatolo, Michele ^a   Kapral, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULNAR NERVE; ULTRASOUND; ADULT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOREARM; INJECTION; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; NERVE BLOCK; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; ULNAR NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 70349243331     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31819a7225     Document Type: Article

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