Broken interscalene brachial plexus catheter: surgical removal or not?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 643-644

  Despond, Olivier ^a   Kohut, George N ^a  

^a Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; DESFLURANE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; PROPOFOL; ROPIVACAINE;

ACROMIOCLAVICULAR SUBLUXATION; ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER REMOVAL; DISLOCATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERSCALENE BRACHIAL PLEXUS CATHETER; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; CATHETERIZATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; SHOULDER DISLOCATION;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CATHETERIZATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; SHOULDER DISLOCATION;

EID: 76249108956     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181c62a05     Document Type: Letter

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