Beach chair position, general anesthesia and deliberated hypotension during shoulder surgery: A dangerous combination!

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 281-282

  Mazzon, D ^a   Danelli, G ^b,c   Poole, D ^a   Marchini, C ^a   Bianchin, C ^a  

^a SAN MARTINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c SIAARTI Workgroup for Anesthesia in Orthopedic Surgery

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CHAIR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSITION; SEASHORE; SHOULDER SURGERY; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; INDUCED HYPOTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SHOULDER;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, CONTROLLED; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; SHOULDER;

EID: 67650175417     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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