Dr. Alan C Santos MD
Anesthesiologist
1514 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans LA, 70121About
Dr. Alan Santos is an anesthesiologist practicing in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Santos ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Santos also might help manage pain after an operation.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Nerve stimulators used for peripheral nerve blocks vary in their electrical characteristics.
- Painful paresthesiae are infrequent during brachial plexus localization using low-current peripheral nerve stimulation.
- Cardiac arrest following regional anesthesia with ropivacaine: here we go again!
- Injection pressures by anesthesiologists during simulated peripheral nerve block.
- Electrical nerve localization: effects of cutaneous electrode placement and duration of the stimulus on motor response.
- Combination of intraneural injection and high injection pressure leads to fascicular injury and neurologic deficits in dogs.
- Neurologic complication after anterior sciatic nerve block.
- For outpatient rotator cuff surgery, nerve block anesthesia provides superior same-day recovery over general anesthesia.
- Post-cesarean delivery analgesia.
- A low approach to interscalene brachial plexus block results in more distal spread of sensory-motor coverage compared to the conventional approach.
- Unanticipated motor block with brachial plexus analgesia after increasing dilute ropivacaine infusion.
- Superadiabatic Controlled Evolutions and Universal Quantum Computation.
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