Serious complications associated with spinal and epidural anaesthesia in Finland from 2000 to 2009

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 553-564

  Pitkanen M T ^a   Aromaa, U ^b   Cozanitis, D A ^b   Forster J G ^a  

^a ORTON ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; DALTEPARIN; ENOXAPARIN; FENTANYL; FONDAPARINUX; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; COMORBIDITY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR PAIN; LEG PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MENINGITIS; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NEUROPATHY; PARAPLEGIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEPSIS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL HEMATOMA;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PAIN; PARAPARESIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876219317     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aas.12064     Document Type: Article

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