Multiple failed external defibrillation attempts during robot-assisted internal mammary harvest for myocardial revascularization

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1113-1114

  Hatton, Kevin W ^a   Kilinski, Lawrence C ^a   Ramaiah, Chandrashekar ^a   Schell, Randall M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; ROBOTICS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33750293365     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000239242.69740.93     Document Type: Article

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