Anaesthesia for spinal surgery in adults

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 886-904

  Raw, Dave A ^a   Beattie, J K ^b   Hunter, J M ^a  

^a School of Anaesthesia   (United Kingdom)

^b Liverpoool University NHS Hospital Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia, general; Monitoring; Surgery, spinal

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; APROTININ; AZATHIOPRINE; BUSULFAN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DESMOPRESSIN; HEPARIN; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD STORAGE; CARCINOMATOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG TOXICITY; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE DISEASE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD HEMORRHAGE; SPINE INJURY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0345099548     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeg253     Document Type: Review

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