Acute respiratory failure after deep cervical plexus block for carotid endarterectomy as a result of bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 715-719

  Weiss, Andreas ^a   Isselhorst, C ^a   Gahlen, J ^a   Freudenberg, S ^a   Roth, H ^a   Hammerschmitt, N ^a   Mattinger, C ^a   Kerger, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CEA; Cervical plexus block; ENT examination; Recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis; Respiratory distress; Thyroid and neck surgery

Indexed keywords

ROPIVACAINE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL PLEXUS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THYROID SURGERY; VOCAL CORD;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; CERVICAL PLEXUS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NERVE BLOCK; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; THYROIDECTOMY; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 17844378483     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2005.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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