Experience of ultrasound-guided popliteal sciatic nerve block and femoral nerve perineural catheter placement in a morbidly obese patient undergoing total knee arthroplasty

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1260-1262

  Hayashi, Hideaki ^a   Ueyama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KANSAI ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuous femoral nerve block; Obesity; Sciatic nerve block; Total knee arthroplasty; Ultra sound

Indexed keywords

LOXOPROFEN; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MORBID OBESITY; NERVE BLOCK; PERINEURIUM; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; SCIATIC NERVE; SUPINE POSITION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; ULTRASOUND;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; OBESITY, MORBID; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 78049306700     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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