Spinal anesthesia in neonates and infants - A single-center experience of 505 cases

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 647-653

  Kachko, Ludmyla ^a,b   Simhi, Eliahu ^a,b   Tzeitlin, Elena ^a,b   Efrat, Rachel ^a,b   Tarabikin, Evelina ^a,b   Peled, Elia ^a,b   Metzner, Iulia ^a,b,c   Katz, Jacob ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WUMC   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Infants; Spinal anesthesia; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BUPIVACAINE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; APNEA; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEWBORN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; APNEA; BODY WEIGHT; BRADYCARDIA; BUPIVACAINE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDAZOLAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34250376104     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2007.02194.x     Document Type: Article

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