Levobupivacaine 0.5% provides longer analgesia after sciatic nerve block using the labat approach than the same dose of ropivacaine in foot and ankle surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1486-1489

  Fournier, Roxane ^a   Faust, Alexandre ^a   Chassot, Olivier ^a   Gamulin, Zdravko ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOBUPIVACAINE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENANTIOMER; FEMALE; FOOT SURGERY; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 77951742829     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181d3e80b     Document Type: Article

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