A standardized protocol for the prevention of clinically relevant venous air embolism during neurosurgical interventions in the semisitting position

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 533-538

  Jadik, Senol ^a   Wissing, Heimo ^a   Friedrich, Karin ^a   Beck, Jürgen ^a   Seifert, Volker ^a   Raabe, Andreas ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Posterior fossa craniotomy; Semisitting position; Venous air embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID SINUS; STANDARD; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSVERSE SINUS; VEIN EMBOLISM;

EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62849127907     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000338432.55235.D3     Document Type: Article

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