Ultrasound-guided popliteal sciatic block with a single injection at the sciatic division results in faster block onset than the classical nerve stimulator technique

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1121-1127

  Sala Blanch, Xavier ^a   De Riva, Nicolás ^a   Carrera, Anna ^b   López, Ana M ^a   Prats, Alberto ^a   Hadzic, Admir ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIATIC POPLITEAL BLOCK; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TIBIAL NERVE; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HALLUX VALGUS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARESTHESIA; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860300060     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318248e1b3     Document Type: Article

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