Speed spinal anesthesia revisited: New drugs and their clinical effects

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 613-620

  Wulf, Hinnerk ^a   Hampl, Karl ^b   Steinfeldt, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Spitalzentrum Biel AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Articaine; Chloroprocaine; Day case surgery; Fentanyl; Neurotoxicity; Prilocaine; Spinal anesthesia; Transient neurologic symptoms

Indexed keywords

ARTICAINE; ATROPINE; BUPIVACAINE; CHLOROPROCAINE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; PRILOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE; AMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROCAINE;

ANALGESIA; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DRUG MEGADOSE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; JACKKNIFE POSITION; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; LOW DRUG DOSE; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; REVIEW; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; URINE RETENTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; PROCEDURES;

AMIDES; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CARTICAINE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; PRILOCAINE; PROCAINE;

EID: 84888309949     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283606b71     Document Type: Review

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