Management of physiological variables in neuroanaesthesia: Maintaining homeostasis during intracranial surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 492-497

  Randell, Tarja ^a   Niskanen, Minna ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Blood glucose; Cerebral blood flow; Hypothermia; Intracranial pressure; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DESFLURANE; DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; GLUCOSE; INDOMETACIN; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; REMIFENTANIL;

ANESTHESIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SURGERY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEAD INJURY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRANIOTOMY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 33748671828     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aco.0000245273.92163.8e     Document Type: Review

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