Antiplatelet therapy or low-dose heparin and neuraxial anaesthesia

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Supplement

Volumn 41, Issue 111, 1997, Pages 219-221

  Schneider, M C ^a   Caliezi, C ^a   Seeberger, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROSTACYCLIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; ANESTHESIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEMATOMA; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HEPARIN; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031310352     PISSN: 05152720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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