Ultrasound-guided interscalene blocks: Understanding where to inject the local anaesthetic

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 509-514

  Spence, B C ^a   Beach, M L ^a   Gallagher, J D ^a   Sites, B D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESFLURANE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE; VECURONIUM;

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ANESTHESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOULDER SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTERSCALENE BLOCK;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARTHROSCOPY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NERVE BLOCK; SENSATION; SHOULDER JOINT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79956139738     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06712.x     Document Type: Article

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