Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia: Learning with an optimized cadaver model

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 383-392

  Kessler, Jens ^a   Moriggl, Bernhard ^b   Grau, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c Department of Anesthesiology Intensive Care Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy Klinikum Guetersloh   (Germany)

Author keywords

Education; Regional anesthesia; Teaching; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CADAVER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SIMULATION; ULTRASOUND GUIDED REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; WORKSHOP; ANESTHESIOLOGY; EDUCATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CADAVER; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84901310106     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: 12798517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-013-1188-z     Document Type: Article

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