The Use of Thoracic Epidural Analgesia in a Patient With Multiple Sclerosis and Severe Kyphoscoliosis

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 704-706

  Marshak, David S ^a   Neustein, Steven M ^a   Thomson, JoAnn ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

kyphoscoliosis; multiple sclerosis; thoracic epidural

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; DESFLURANE; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; ISOFLURANE; LIDOCAINE; NEOSTIGMINE; NITROUS OXIDE PLUS OXYGEN; OXYCODONE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; THORACOTOMY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE REMOVAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; KYPHOSIS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; SCOLIOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33749132984     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2006.02.025     Document Type: Article

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