Regional anaesthesia for rib fractures: too many choices, too little evidence

K El-Boghdadly^{1

2}, M D Wiles³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
² King's College London, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.

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K El-Boghdadly et al. Anaesthesia. 2019 May.

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. 2019 May;74(5):564-568.

doi: 10.1111/anae.14634. Epub 2019 Mar 11.

K El-Boghdadly^{1

2}, M D Wiles³

¹ Department of Anaesthesia, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
² King's College London, UK.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.

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Keywords: nerve block; outcomes; regional analgesia; rib fracture.

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