Nerve injury complicating ultrasound/electrostimulation-guided supraclavicular brachial plexus block

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 400-401

  Reiss, Wojciech ^a   Kurapati, Sushmitha ^a   Shariat, Ali ^a   Hadzic, Admir ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; MIDAZOLAM; OXYCODONE; ROPIVACAINE; AMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DENERVATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INJECTION; INNERVATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGERY; THUMB;

AGED; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THUMB; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77954390900     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181e90ec9     Document Type: Article

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