An ultrasonographic assessment of nerve stimulation-guided median nerve block at the elbow: A local anesthetic spread, nerve size, and clinical efficacy study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 561-567

  Dufour, Eric ^a   Cymerman, Alexandre ^a   Nourry, Gérard ^a   Balland, Nicolas ^a   Couturier, Christian ^b   Liu, Ngai ^a   Dreyfus, Jean François ^b   Fischler, Marc ^a  

^a FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SOS Main Hôpital privé Ouest Parisien   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; KETOPROFEN; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PARACETAMOL; SUFENTANIL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; INJECTION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWELLING; TENDON INJURY; VASCULAR PUNCTURE; WOUND;

EID: 77955095757     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181e3a06f     Document Type: Article

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