Hemidiaphragmatic paresis can be avoided in ultrasound-guided supraclavicular brachial plexus block

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 595-599

  Renes, Steven H ^a   Spoormans, Hubertus H ^b   Gielen, Mathieu J ^a   Rettig, Harald C ^c   Van Geffen, Geert J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BERNHOVEN HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c IKAZIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEMIDIAPHRAGMATIC PARESIS; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PAIN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549175949     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181bfbd83     Document Type: Article

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