Neurological deficit after a peripheral regional anaesthetic: Flying on instruments, the black box, crash investigation and other aeronautics

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 435-438

  Picard, J ^a   Ross Anderson, D ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIST; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FASCIA; HUMAN; INTRANEURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79956116544     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06760.x     Document Type: Review

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