Cardiac arrest caused by coronary spasm in two patients during recovery from epidural anesthesia

Regional Anesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 261-

  Sprung, Juraj ^a   Lesitsky, Mark A ^a   Jagetia, Anil ^a   Tucker, Christian ^a   Saffian, Michael ^a   Gottlieb, Alexandru ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Coronary artery disease; Coronary artery spasm vasotonic angina; Epidural anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CASE REPORT; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOVERY ROOM; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CORONARY VASOSPASM; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0029972798     PISSN: 0146521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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