Anesthetic management for video-assisted extended thymectomy of patients with myasthenia gravis

Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 270-275

  Tajima, Keiko ^a   Kita, Takashi ^a   Nakano, Sonoko ^a   Sakaki, Shigeta ^a   Kido, Tetsuo ^a  

^a OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential lung ventilation; Myasthenia gravis; Video assisted thymectomy

Indexed keywords

PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; STERNOTOMY; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; THORAX SURGERY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PULMONARY VENTILATION; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 17144389406     PISSN: 00214892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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