Complications in Pediatric Regional Anesthesia: An Analysis of More than 100,000 Blocks from the Pediatric Regional

Benjamin J Walker1, Justin B Long, Madhankumar Sathyamoorthy

  • 1From the Departments of Anesthesiology (B.J.W.) Biostatistics and Medical Informatics (J.B.), University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, American Family Children's Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin the Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Children's Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia ( J.B.L.) the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi (M.S.) Axio Research LLC, Seattle, Washington (C.W.) the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington (A.T.B., S.H.F.) the Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California (E.J.K.) the Department of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (N.F.S.) the Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (S.S.) the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire (A.H.T.) the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado (D.M.P.). Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle Children's Hospital Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Children's Medical Center, Dallas Children's Medical Center, Dallas The Cleveland Clinic Boston Children's Hospital University of Texas, Houston University of Texas, Houston University of New Mexico University of New Mexico Texas Children's Hospital Texas Children's Hospital Texas Children's Hospital Texas Children's Hospital Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health Sciences University Amplatz Children's Hospital/University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital/University of Minnesota Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health Hospital for Special Surgery, New York Hospital for Special Surgery, New York Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Children's Hospital, Emory University Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Children's Hospital, Emory University Children's of Mississippi, University of Mississippi Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Columbia University University Hospital Rijeka, Croatia Nationwide Children's Hospital, Ohio State University Hospital Municipal Jesus, Rio De Janiero, Brazil Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey Monroe Carrell Children's Hospital, Vanderbilt University Wellstar Medical Group Children's National Medical Center Children's National Medical Center Massachusetts General Hospital for Children Massachusetts General Hospital for Children.

Anesthesiology
|August 4, 2018
PubMed
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