Patient safety in regional anesthesia: preventing wrong-site peripheral nerve block

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 74-77

  O'Neill, Tanya ^a   Cherreau, Patrick ^a   Bouaziz, Herve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; MEPIVACAINE; PROPOFOL;

AGED; ANESTHESIST; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; EYE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PREMEDICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MEDICAL ERRORS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 77449107409     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2009.05.003     Document Type: Letter

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