Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass procedure using a high thoracic epidural plus general anesthetic technique

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 668-672

  Liem, Tiong H ^a   Williams, John P ^b   Hensens, Ab G ^b   Singh, Sandeep K ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Combined general and regional anesthesia; MIDCAB; Thoracic epidural anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INCISION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VENTILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA;

EID: 0032407111     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-0770(98)90240-3     Document Type: Article

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