Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia Increases Tissue Oxygenation during Major Abdominal Surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1812-1817

  Kabon, Barbara ^a   Fleischmann, Edith ^b   Treschan, Tanja ^b   Taguchi, Akiko ^a   Kapral, Stephan ^b   Kurz, Andrea ^a,c,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BOLUS INJECTION; CANCER; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; OXYGEN ELECTRODE; OXYGEN THERAPY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPPLEMENTATION; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; TISSUE OXYGENATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 0345283326     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000087040.48267.54     Document Type: Article

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