Ultrasound-guided sciatic nerve block in the popliteal fossa using a lateral approach: Onset time comparing separate Tibial and common peroneal nerve injections versus injecting proximal to the bifurcation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 635-637

  Buys, Michael J ^a   Arndt, Christopher D ^a   Vagh, Firoz ^a   Hoard, Anna ^a   Gerstein, Neal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BICARBONATE; CLONIDINE; MEPIVACAINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOOT SURGERY; HUMAN; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSATION; TIBIAL NERVE; ULTRASOUND; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOOT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CLONIDINE; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PERONEAL NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSATION; TIBIAL NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 76249103098     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181c88f27     Document Type: Article

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