Ultrasound imaging for regional anesthesia in infants, children, and adolescents: A review of current literature and its application in the practice of extremity and trunk blocks

Anesthesiology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 473-492

  Tsui, Ban C H ^a   Suresh, Santhanam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; MARKER; ROPIVACAINE;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; DORSAL PENILE NERVE BLOCK; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; NERVE BLOCK; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PENIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECTUS SHEATH BLOCK; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK; ADOLESCENT; ARM; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHILD; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; INNERVATION; LEG; LIMB; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHILD; EXTREMITIES; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; LOWER EXTREMITY; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NERVE BLOCK; SCIATIC NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 77449093915     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181c5dfd7     Document Type: Review

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