Regional anesthesia in patients with significant comorbid disease

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1281-1290

  Stundner, O ^a   Danninger, T ^a,b   Memtsoudis, S G ^b  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Blood coagulation; Cardiovascular diseases; Comorbidity; Infection; Local nerve block; Musculoskeletal diseases; Rheumatic diseases.

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NERVE BLOCK; NEURAXIAL ANESTHESIA; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE BLOCK; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; ADULT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84892159064     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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