Multiple injection axillary brachial plexus block: Influence of obesity on failure rate and incidence of acute complications

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 230-233

  Hanouz, Jean Luc ^a   Grandin, Wilfried ^a   Lesage, Anne ^a   Oriot, Gérard ^a   Bonnieux, Daniel ^a   Gérard, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYZINE; NITROUS OXIDE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; OBESITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WRIST; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RECOVERY ROOM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; BODY MASS INDEX; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OBESITY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECOVERY ROOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954675523     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181dde023     Document Type: Article

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