Anesthesia in the patient for awake craniotomy

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 331-335

  Frost, Elizabeth A M ^a   Booij, Leo H D J ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALFENTANIL; BUPIVACAINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DROPERIDOL; ETIDOCAINE; FENTANYL; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE;

ADD ON THERAPY; AGITATION; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRANIOTOMY; DROWSINESS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTENSION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MONITORING; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NEUROLEPTANALGESIA; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; WAKEFULNESS;

CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRANIOTOMY; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PIPERIDINES; PROPOFOL;

EID: 34447337752     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328136c56f     Document Type: Review

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