"Other" neurologic complications after cardiac surgery

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 213-226

  Grocott, Hilary P ^a   Clark, Jeffrey A ^a   Homi, H Mayumi ^a   Sharma, Ajeet ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART SURGERY; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS NERVE; STROKE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NERVES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 4944239804     PISSN: 10892532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108925320400800304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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