Real-time ultrasound visualization of intravascular injection of local anesthetic during a peripheral nerve block

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 278-279

  Baciarello, Marco ^a   Danelli, Giorgio ^a   Fanelli, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; MEPIVACAINE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LETTER; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL ERROR; NOTE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEPIVACAINE; NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 70349254629     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31819aab1     Document Type: Letter

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