A 3-dimensional ultrasound study of local anesthetic spread during lateral popliteal nerve block: What is the ideal end point for needle tip position?

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 627-632

  Missair, Andres ^a   Weisman, Robyn S ^a   Suarez, Maria Rene ^a   Yang, Relin ^a   Gebhard, Ralf E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INJECTION SITE EXTRAVASATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERINEURIUM; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SWELLING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATIC NERVE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84868270754     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31826af511     Document Type: Article

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