Does regional anaesthesia improve outcome?

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 545-548

  Fischer, Barrie ^a  

^a ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

epidural; regional anaesthesia; regional analgesia; spinal; stress response; surgical outcome

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; OPIATE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOW DRUG DOSE; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71449086392     PISSN: 14720299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpaic.2009.08.008     Document Type: Review

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