Ultrasound-guided thoracic paravertebral blockade: A retrospective study of the incidence of complications

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1186-1191

  Pace, Meredith M ^a   Sharma, Balram ^a   Anderson Dam, John ^a   Fleischmann, Katherine ^a   Warren, Lisa ^a   Stefanovich, Peter ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN PLUS BUPIVACAINE; ATROPINE; CHLORHEXIDINE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; LIPID EMULSION; MIDAZOLAM; PHENYLEPHRINE;

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ACCIDENTAL PLEURAL PUNCTURE; ADULT; ANESTHETIC NEEDLE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRADYCARDIA; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROTOXICITY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; THORACIC PARAVERTEBRAL BLOCK; THORACOCENTESIS; TINNITUS; ULTRASOUND GUIDED NERVE BLOCK; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED STATES; XEROSTOMIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC VERTEBRA;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84954342202     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001117     Document Type: Article

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