Unusual use of nitroglycerin for severe bronchospasm during coiling embolization of ruptured intracranial aneurysm

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-208

  Mikulandra, Simon ^a   Hirs, Ivana ^b   Deutsch, Judith ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^b Varazdin General Hospital   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHYLLINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROCORTISONE; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OXYGEN; SALBUTAMOL; SEVOFLURANE; THIOPENTAL; URAPIDIL; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRONCHOSPASM; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; LETTER; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHEEZING; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; BRONCHIAL SPASM; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; NITROGLYCERIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 49649103148     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANA.0b013e3181733576     Document Type: Letter

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