Use of somatosensory evoked potentials for thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic resections

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1947-1952

  Galla, Jan D ^a   Ergin, M Arisan ^a   Lansman, Steven L ^a   McCullough, Jock N ^a   H Nguyen, Khanh ^a   Spielvogel, David ^a   Klein, James J ^a   Griepp, Randall B ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA SURGERY; ARTERY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THORACIC AORTA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0032957967     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00444-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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