Ultrasound-guided paravertebral block using an intercostal approach

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1691-1694

  Ben Ari, Alon ^a   Moreno, Milena ^a   Chelly, Jacques E ^a   Bigeleisen, Paul E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; ROPIVACAINE; VECURONIUM; AMIDE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATOME; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE BLOCK; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOCENTESIS; ULTRASOUND; ABDOMEN; CATHETERIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIDES; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HUMANS; HYDROMORPHONE; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLES; LIDOCAINE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350731288     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181b72d50     Document Type: Article

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