Where should the tip of the needle be located in ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 596-602

  Choquet, Olivier ^a   Morau, Didier ^a   Biboulet, Philippe ^a   Capdevila, Xavier ^a  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

local anaesthetic spread; needle tip location; peripheral nerve block; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ENDONEURIUM; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ELONGATION; NERVE SHEATH; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; OBTURATOR NERVE; PERINEURIUM; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANVIER NODE; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS PLANE BLOCK; ULTRASOUND GUIDED PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCK;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; HUMANS; NEEDLES; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIPHERAL NERVES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84866391487     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328356bb40     Document Type: Review

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