Effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on onset of axillary plexus block
| Autor: | H. Wulf, M. F. Stevens, B. Neruda, U. Linstedt, P. Lipfert |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Other departments |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors medicine.drug_class Movement medicine.medical_treatment Sensation Mepivacaine Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation law.invention law Humans Medicine Brachial Plexus Single-Blind Method Anesthetics Local Ulnar nerve Ulnar Nerve Aged Brachial plexus block business.industry Local anesthetic Nerve Block Middle Aged Hand Median nerve Median Nerve Surgery Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Anesthesia Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation Nerve block Female Skin Temperature business Brachial plexus medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Anaesthesia, 51(10), 916-919. Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 0003-2409 |
| Popis: | We examined the effect of high frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on the onset of brachial plexus block. Three groups of patients scheduled for surgery of the hand had a local anaesthetic block performed with 40 ml mepivacaine 1.5% using the axillary approach. After injection of the local anaesthetic transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation was applied for 15 min either to the median nerve or the ulnar nerve; no stimulation was applied in the control group. Before and for 45 min after, the injection of local anaesthetic touch perception, pin prick, motor strength and skin temperature were tested by a blinded investigator in the areas supplied by the median, musculocutaneous, radial and ulnar nerves. There were no differences in the onset of block between the groups. Thus, the frequency-dependent action of local anaesthetics could not be demonstrated. |
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