Editorial: Will conventional local anesthetics soon be replaced by neurotoxins?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-102

  Butterworth IV, John F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NEOSAXITOXIN; TETRODOTOXIN; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; SAXITOXIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SPECIFICITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; PH; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALGESIA; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SAXITOXIN;

EID: 79952163563     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31820db23e     Document Type: Editorial

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