Incidence of venous air embolism during craniectomy for craniosynostosis repair

Anesthesiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-23

  Faberowski, Lisa W ^a   Black, Susan ^a,b   Mickle, J Parker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Hypotension; Intervention; Precordial Doppler ultrasonic probe

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033957342     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200001000-00009     Document Type: Article

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