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Review Article| Volume 30, ISSUE 1, P61-73, 2012

Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Pediatrics

  • Ravi Shah
    Correspondence
    Corresponding author.
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    Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 225 East Chicago Avenue, Box 19, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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  • Amod Sawardekar
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    Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 225 East Chicago Avenue, Box 19, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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  • Santhanam Suresh
    Affiliations
    Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 225 East Chicago Avenue, Box 19, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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      Continuous peripheral nerve blocks (CPNBs) are gaining popularity in pediatrics with the advanced use of ultrasonography as well as accepted techniques of nerve stimulation [
      • Tsui B.
      • Suresh S.
      Ultrasound imaging for regional anesthesia in infants, children, and adolescents: a review of current literature and its application to neuraxial blocks.
      ].

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