Ultrasound-guided bilateral paravertebral continuous nerve blocks for a mildly coagulopathic patient undergoing exploratory laparotomy for bowel resection

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 459-462

  Visoiu, Mihaela ^a   Yang, Charles ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

paravertebral nerve blockade; postoperative pain; thromboelastogram

Indexed keywords

HYDROMORPHONE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; ROPIVACAINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PARAVERTEBRAL NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRICS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CATHETERIZATION; DENYS-DRASH SYNDROME; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; INTESTINES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE;

EID: 79952490380     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2010.03511.x     Document Type: Article

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