Awake partial sternotomy pacemaker implantation under thoracic epidural anesthesia

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 418-420

  Aoki, Kenji ^a   Kanazawa, Hiroshi ^a   Okamoto, Takeshi ^a   Takahashi, Yoshiki ^a   Nakazawa, Satoshi ^a   Yamazaki, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a NIIGATA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CLINDAMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HOME OXYGEN THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNOTOMY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEVICE REMOVAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HEART PACING; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; REOPERATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REOPERATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNOTOMY;

EID: 73349102208     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-009-0401-9     Document Type: Article

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