Spinal anesthesia failure after local anesthetic injection into cerebrospinal fluid: A multicenter prospective analysis of its incidence and related risk factors in 1214 patients

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 322-326

  Fuzier, Régis ^a,b   Bataille, Benoît ^b   Fuzier, Valérie ^c   Richez, Anne Stéphanie ^b   Maguès, Jean Philippe ^b   Choquet, Olivier ^d   Montastruc, Jean Louis ^a   Lapeyre Mestre, Maryse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Joseph Ducuing Hospital   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; MORPHINE; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 79959994677     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e318217a68e     Document Type: Article

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