Decreasing the local anesthetic volume from 20 to 10 mL for ultrasound-guided interscalene block at the cricoid level does not reduce the incidence of hemidiaphragmatic paresis

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-20

  Sinha, Sanjay K ^a   Abrams, Jonathan H ^a   Barnett, John T ^a   Muller, John G ^a   Lahiri, Bimalin ^a   Bernstein, Bruce A ^a   Weller, Robert S ^b  

^a SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRICOID; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HEMIDIAPHRAGMATIC PARESIS; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOVERY ROOM; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARTHROSCOPY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CRICOID CARTILAGE; DIAPHRAGM; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PARESIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SHOULDER JOINT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 78650838374     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e3182030648     Document Type: Article

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