Regional anesthesia in cardiac surgery: A friend or a foe?

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-104

  Djaiani, George ^a,b   Fedorko, Ludwik ^a   Beattie, W Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; BICARBONATE; BUPIVACAINE; CATECHOLAMINE; CLONIDINE; CLOPIDOGREL; FENTANYL; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIDOCAINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MEPIVACAINE; MORPHINE; NORADRENALIN; ROPIVACAINE; SUFENTANIL; TICLOPIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTERY GRAFT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EXTUBATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INFARCTION; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION; META ANALYSIS; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROTOXICITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OFF PUMP SURGERY; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD HEMORRHAGE; SPINAL CORD INFARCTION; STRESS; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; VITAL CAPACITY;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14744273889     PISSN: 10892532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108925320500900109     Document Type: Review

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