Ruptured aortic aneurysm and cardiac arrest associated with spinal anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 244-246

  Joshi, Girish P ^a   Shearer, Vance E ^b   Racz, Tibor ^b   Douning, Linda ^b   Morrison, Debra ^a   Landers, Dennis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anesthetic technique: spinal; Complications: cardiac arrest: ruptured abdominal aortic ancurysm

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART ARREST; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0031020996     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199701000-00028     Document Type: Article

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