Ultrasound-guided distal popliteal sciatic nerve block for ED anesthesia

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 697.e3-697.e5

  Herring, Andrew A ^a   Stone, Micheal B ^a,b   Fischer, Jason ^a   Frenkel, Oron ^a   Chiles, Kris ^a   Teismann, Nathan ^a,b   Nagdev, Arun ^a,b  

^a ALAMEDA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANKLE DISLOCATION; ANKLE PAIN; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS FRACTURE; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOOT PAIN; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE ABSCESS; LACERATION; MALE; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPLINTING; THERAPY EFFECT; WOUND IRRIGATION;

EID: 79959453378     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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