Katarina Tomulic Brusich Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology consultant/ICU subspecialist at Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka
1996. - 2002.: University of Rijeka, Medical school;
2002-2005.: Internship in Department of emergency medicine, Rijeka;
2005-2009 Trainee in anaesthesiology and Intensive care medicine;
2009 Specialist of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine;
2011-present: PhD candidate;
2012-2014: Internship in Intensive care.
2014: Intensive care medicine subspecialist.
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Author(s): Katarina Tomulic Brusich, Ivana Acan and Natasa Viskovic Filipcic
Objective:
Peripheral nerve blocks (PNB) have become a highly favorable anesthetic option for limb surgery. To enhance patient comfort and postoperative analgesia dexamethasone has been implemented as adjunct to local anesthetics, either perineuraly or intravenously, with similar effect. We hypothesized that also oral corticosteroids can prolong analgesia after single-shot supraclavicular nerve block (SCB) regardless of the route of administration.
Methods:
A single-center retrospective study was conducted am... view moreĀ»