Ultrasound brachial plexus anesthesia and analgesia for upper extremity surgery: Essentials of our current understanding, 2011

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 581-591

  Halaszynski, Thomas M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brachial plexus nerve block; ultrasound; upper extremity blockade

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE PLUS LIDOCAINE; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE;

ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; AXILLARY ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSESTHESIA; ECHOGRAPHY; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INJECTION SITE PARESTHESIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERSCALENE PLEXUS BLOCKADE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE SWELLING; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERINEURAL BLOCK; PERINEURIUM; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER SURGERY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SUPRASCAPULAR BLOCK; SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATION;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 80052679895     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32834aca03     Document Type: Article

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