Editorial: Ultrasound guidance and peripheral nerve injury: Is our vision as sharp as we think it is?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 335-337

  Neal, Joseph M ^a   Wedel, Denise J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ALLODYNIA; ARTHROPLASTY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONSULTATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIAL NERVE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; VASCULARIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INJECTION; INJURY; NOTE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77954416154     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3181e8a3bb     Document Type: Editorial

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