The effect of increasing degrees of spinal flexion on cerebrospinal fluid pressure

Anaesthesia

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 431-434

  Dinsmore, J ^a   Bacon, R C ^a   Hollway, T E ^a  

^a ATKINSON MORLEY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid, pressure; Position, spinal flexion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUROSURGERY; PERFUSION PRESSURE; SPINE;

CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTURE; SPINE;

EID: 0031922882     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00333.x     Document Type: Article

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