Epidural anesthesia and acutely increased intracranial pressure: Lumbar epidural space hydrodynamics in a porcine model

Anesthesiology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1086-1091

  Grocott, H P ^a   Mutch, W A C ^a  

^a ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

cerebral blood flow; epidural anesthesia; intracranial hypertension; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; ISOFLURANE; PANCURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL SPACE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SWINE; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; SPINAL CORD; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029914167     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199611000-00017     Document Type: Article

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