Electrophysiologic monitoring during surgery to repair the thoracoabdominal aorta

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-125

  Sloan, Tod B ^a,b  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; STRESS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THORACOABDOMINAL AORTA SURGERY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

EID: 3342972672     PISSN: 10892532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108925320400800205     Document Type: Review

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