Incidence and effects of unintentional intraneural injection during ultrasound-guided subgluteal sciatic nerve block

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 289-293

  Hara, Kaoru ^a   Sakura, Shinichi ^a   Yokokawa, Naomi ^a   Tadenuma, Saki ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; MEPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARTHROSCOPY; BUTTOCKS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; JAPAN; KNEE; MALE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATIC NERVE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860748229     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31824bde5c     Document Type: Article

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