Anaesthetic considerations for hysteroscopic surgery

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-51

  Mushambi, Mary C ^a   Williamson, Karin ^b  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Distending media; Equipment; Gynaecology; Hysteroscope; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEXTRAN 70; DIHYDROCODEINE; DIURETIC AGENT; FIBRINOGEN; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GLYCINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MANNITOL; MORPHINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; PROPOFOL; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SEDATIVE AGENT; SHORT ACTING DRUG; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SORBITOL; THIOPENTAL; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT;

AIR EMBOLISM; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABSORPTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GAS EMBOLISM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERVOLEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENORRHAGIA; MORBIDITY; MYOMETRIUM; OPERATION DURATION; OSMOLALITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; UROLOGY; UTERUS DISEASE; UTERUS PERFORATION; ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; LAVAGE; METHODOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; HYSTEROSCOPY; IRRIGATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0036491358     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/bean.2002.0206     Document Type: Article

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