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Australia: Results of a Multicenter Registry of Regional Anesthesia

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Abbreviations

ARAC:

Australasian Regional Anaesthesia Collaboration

AURORA:

The Australian and New Zealand Registry of Regional Anaesthesia

LAST:

Local anesthetic systemic toxicity

PNB:

Peripheral nerve blockade

PNI:

Postoperative Nerve Injury

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia

    Michael J. Barrington PhD, MBBS, FANZCA

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Michael J. Barrington PhD, MBBS, FANZCA

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Brendan T. Finucane

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Ban C.H. Tsui

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Barrington, M.J. (2017). Australia: Results of a Multicenter Registry of Regional Anesthesia. In: Finucane, B., Tsui, B. (eds) Complications of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49386-2_27

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