Optimizing the safety and practice of ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia: The role of echogenic technology

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 603-609

  Hocking, Graham ^a,b   Mitchell, Christopher H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

echogenic; equipment; needle; ultrasound; visibility

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ANESTHESIST; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDONEURIUM; ERROR; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; ULTRASOUND;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANESTHETICS; CATHETERS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; NEEDLES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84866372624     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328356b835     Document Type: Review

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