Fourteen fallacies about the isolated forearm technique, and its place in modern anaesthesia

Anaesthesia

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 677-681

  Russell, I F ^a  

^a Royal Hull Hospitals   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCURONIUM; ATRACURIUM BESILATE; CURARE; ETOMIDATE; FAZADINIUM; PANCURONIUM; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

AMNESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; BOLUS INJECTION; CANNULA; CESAREAN SECTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; COOPERATION; DREAMING; FOREARM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HAND MOVEMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; INFUSION; INTRAOPERATIVE AWARENESS; ISOLATED FOREARM TECHNIQUE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; PARALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATOR; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PUBLICATION; PULSE OXIMETER; REASSURANCE; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TETANUS; TOURNIQUET; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANESTHESIA; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS MONITORS; DREAMS; FOREARM; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE AWARENESS; NERVE BLOCK; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REFLEX; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84879118217     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12265     Document Type: Review

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