Anaesthesia for brachytherapy - 5 1/2 yr of experience in 1622 procedures

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-200

  Benrath, J ^a   Kozek Langenecker, S ^a   Hupfl M ^a   Lierz, P ^a,b   Gustorff, Burkhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Abteilung für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia, conduction; Anaesthesia, general; Anaesthesia, spinal; Analgesia; Analysis, retrospective; Complications; Therapy, brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; DICLOFENAC; DIPYRONE; FENTANYL; LIDOCAINE; MEPIVACAINE; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; OPIATE; PIRITRAMIDE; REMIFENTANIL; SEDATIVE AGENT; TRAMADOL; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRADYCARDIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; PELVIS; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 31744446808     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aei301     Document Type: Article

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