Incidence of unintentional intraneural injection and postoperative neurological complications with ultrasound-guided interscalene and supraclavicular nerve blocks

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 168-174

  Liu, S S ^a   Yadeau, J T ^a   Shaw, P M ^a   Wilfred, S ^a   Shetty, T ^a   Gordon, M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; MEPIVACAINE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CHIBA NEEDLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRANEURAL INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTERSCALENE NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASOUND GUIDED SUPRACLAVICULAR NERVE BLOCK;

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ARTHROSCOPY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER JOINT; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79951746641     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06619.x     Document Type: Article

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