Cerebral monitoring during cardiovascular surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-54

  Guarracino, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Cardiovascular surgery; Neuromonitoring

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; MONITORING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OXIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 38149085292     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3282f3f499     Document Type: Review

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