Neuraxial blockade in patients with preexisting spinal stenosis, lumbar disk disease, or prior spine surgery: Efficacy and neurologic complications

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1511-1519

  Hebl, James R ^a   Horlocker, Terese T ^a   Kopp, Sandra L ^a   Schroeder, Darrell R ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROCAINE; TETRACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETER COMPLICATION; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONVALESCENCE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INJECTION SITE HYPERSENSITIVITY; ISCHEMIA; LAMINECTOMY; LEG; LEG PAIN; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBAR RADICULOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROAXIAL ANESTHESIA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POPLITEAL CYST; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INJURY; TUMOR BLEEDING; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MINNESOTA; NERVE BLOCK; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650304526     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181f71234     Document Type: Article

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