Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia performance in the early learning period: Effect of simulation training

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-54

  Niazi, Ahtsham Uddin ^a   Haldipur, Nidhi ^a   Prasad, Arun G ^a   Chan, Vincent W ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESIDENT; SIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; TRAINING; ULTRASOUND;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LEARNING CURVE; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE BLOCK; ONTARIO; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84855174031     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31823dc340     Document Type: Article

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