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Transient hemidiaphragmatic paresis after ultrasound-guided lateral sagittal infraclavicular block
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. 25:496-498
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- As compared with medial approaches for the infraclavicular brachial plexus block, lateral approaches generally have no impact on the phrenic nerve or pulmonary function. A patient experienced transient hemidiaphragmatic paresis after ultrasound-guided lateral sagittal infraclavicular block for lower arm surgery. An accessory phrenic nerve, ie, an anatomical variation, may have been the mechanism of transient hemidiaphragmatic paresis in this patient.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Pulmonary function testing
Humans
Medicine
Brachial Plexus
Ultrasonography, Interventional
Aged
Paresis
Phrenic nerve
business.industry
Upper extremity surgery
Nerve Block
Anatomy
Respiratory Paralysis
Ultrasound guided
Sagittal plane
Radiography
Infraclavicular brachial plexus block
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Anesthesia
Orthopedic surgery
Female
medicine.symptom
business
circulatory and respiratory physiology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09528180
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d3c892239b963a30aba3904e7d32b1ed