Prevention of Ischemic Neurologic Injury With Intraoperative Monitoring of Selected Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Procedures: Roles of Electroencephalography, Somatosensory Evoked Potentials, Transcranial Doppler, and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 631-645

  Sloan, Michael A ^a,b  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA SURGERY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MICROEMBOLISM; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPROTECTION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33748126217     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2006.05.002     Document Type: Review

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