Spinal cord protection and thoracic aortic surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Sinha, Ashish C ^a   Cheung, Albert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lumbar cerebrospinal fluid drainage; Paraplegia; Spinal cord ischemia; Thoracic aortic aneurysm; Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MAGNESIUM; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NALOXONE; PAPAVERINE; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; THIOPENTAL;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFARCTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PERFUSION; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THORACIC AORTA SURGERY;

ALGORITHMS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 75149134775     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283348975     Document Type: Review

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