Role of the reverse-Trendelenberg patient position in maintaining low-CVP anaesthesia during liver resections

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 393, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-198

  Soonawalla, Zahir F ^a   Stratopoulos, Charalabos ^a,b   Stoneham, Mark ^a   Wilkinson, Douglas ^a   Britton, B Julian ^a   Friend, Peter J ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Central venous pressure; Hepatectomy; Liver resection; Trendelenberg

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SUPINE POSITION; SURGEON; TITRIMETRY;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HEMORRHAGE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE;

EID: 39049103866     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-007-0222-1     Document Type: Article

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