Ultrasound imaging facilitates spinal anesthesia in adults with difficult surface anatomic landmarks

Anesthesiology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-101

  Chin, Ki Jinn ^a,b   Perlas, Anahi ^a   Chan, Vincent ^a   Brown Shreves, Danielle ^a   Koshkin, Arkadiy ^a   Vaishnav, Vandana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DURA MATER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINE SURGERY;

EID: 79959493976     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31821a8ad4     Document Type: Article

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