Adverse outcomes associated with nerve stimulator-guided and ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks by supervised trainees: Update of a single-site database

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 577-582

  Orebaugh, Steven L ^a   Kentor, Michael L ^a   Williams, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATOR; NERVE STIMULATOR GUIDED PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCK; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND GUIDED PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCK;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; NERVE BLOCK; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SEIZURES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84868297389     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e318263d396     Document Type: Article

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