Ultrasound guidance superior to conventional nerve stimulation for coracoid infraclavicular brachial plexus block?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 357-360

  Taboada, Manuel ^a   Rodríguez, Jaime ^a   Amor, Marcos ^a   Sabate, Sergi ^a,b   Alvarez, Julian ^a   Cortes, Joaquín ^a   Atanassoff, Peter G ^c  

^a University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓ PUIGVERT   (Spain)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MEPIVACAINE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA ONSET TIME; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PUNCTURE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORACOID INFRACLAVICULAR BRACHIAL PLEXUS BLOCK; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SENSORY EVALUATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIME;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLAVICLE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PUNCTURES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; WRIST;

EID: 70350163038     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181ac7c19     Document Type: Article

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