Caudal block and ventricular shunt devices: Beware of the consequences of increasing epidural pressure! [8]

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 707-709

  Veyckemans, Francis ^a   Scholtes, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; DEVICE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING;

ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHILD; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 34250365830     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2007.02200.x     Document Type: Letter

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