"above All, Do No Harm": Hippocrates

Anesthesiology

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 938-939

  Gerner, Peter ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LIDOCAINE ETHOBROMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROCAINE; ROPIVACAINE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; EDITORIAL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; NERVE BLOCK; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 70350454949     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181bbcd2c     Document Type: Editorial

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