Advanced Neurological Monitoring for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Seminars in Cerebrovascular Diseases and Stroke

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-154

  Razumovsky, Alexander Y ^a   Gugino, Lavern D ^a,b   Owen, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a Functional Neurosurgical Services   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIURETIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; NITRATE; OXYGEN; STEROID;

AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INJURY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; ORGAN INJURY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGERY; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

EID: 33646362528     PISSN: 15289931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.scds.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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