Echocardiographic evaluation of global left ventricular function during high thoracic epidural anesthesia

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 118-124

  Niimi, Yoshinari ^a,b   Ichinose, Fumito ^a   Saegusa, Hiroaki ^a   Nakata, Yoshinori ^a   Morita, Shigeho ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Teikyo Med Univ Ichihara Hosp   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anesthetic techniques; computer assisted, imaging processing, pulsed Doppler; heart; epidural, thoracic; anesthetics, local; lidocaine; echocardiography, transthoracic; ventricular function

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030951105     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-8180(97)00234-1     Document Type: Article

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