A comparison of an injection cephalad or caudad to the division of the sciatic nerve for ultrasound-guided popliteal block: A prospective randomized study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 233-235

  Germain, Geneviève ^a   Lévesque, Simon ^a   Dion, Nicolas ^a   Nadeau, Marie Josée ^a   Coté, Dany ^a   Nicole, Pierre C ^a   Turgeon, Alexis F ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL; AMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOT SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIBIAL NERVE; ULTRASOUND; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INJECTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE BLOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84655166554     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182373887     Document Type: Article

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