Mediastinoscopy and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: Anesthetic pitfalls and complications

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 128-132

  Thomsen, Robert W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Mediastinoscopy; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; TALC;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIST; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CATHETER REMOVAL; CERVICOGENIC PAIN; CYSTOSCOPE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDURAL SITE INFECTION; HIGH DEFINITION VIDEOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTERCOSTAL NERVE BLOCK; LARYNX EDEMA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VENTILATION; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MENINGITIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OROPHARYNX TRAUMA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REVIEW; SHOULDER PAIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC CAVITY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN EMBOLISM; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 47549090075     PISSN: 10892532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1089253208319873     Document Type: Review

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