Ultrasound use in non-cardiac surgery

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-247

  Schwemmer, Ulrich ^a   Brederlau, Joerg ^b   Roewer, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Anaesthesia Hospital Hanau ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

anaesthesia; nerve block; transoesophageal echocardiography; ultrasound; vascular access

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTIFACT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; SURGICAL PATIENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ANESTHESIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 69849112953     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2009.02.003     Document Type: Review

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