Continuous interscalene block associated with neck hematoma and postoperative sepsis

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1236-1238

  Clendenen, Steven R ^a   Robards, Christopher B ^a   Wang, R Doris ^a   Greengrass, Roy A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MEROPENEM; NORADRENALIN; VANCOMYCIN; VASOPRESSIN; AMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; ROPIVACAINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETER INFECTION; CELLULITIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERSCALENE NERVE BLOCK; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; LETHARGY; NECK HEMATOMA; NERVE BLOCK; PERITONEAL FLUID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY; SKIN INDURATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VITAL SIGN; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; MICROBIOLOGY; NECK INJURY; PATHOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEPSIS; SHOULDER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AGED; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARTHROPLASTY; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CELLULITIS; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NECK INJURIES; NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEPSIS; SHOULDER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 77951004169     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181cf03b4     Document Type: Article

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