Does "opening the perineural space" before stimulating catheter placement for continuous nerve block add value in clinical practice?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-248

  Ficarrotta, Meghan R ^a   Morey, Timothy E ^a   Boezaart, André P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; PATELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ULTRASOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATHETERIZATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952381691     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181df250f     Document Type: Article

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