Dexmedetomidine for anesthetic management of anterior mediastinal mass

Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 607-610

  Abdelmalak, Basem ^a   Marcanthony, Nicholas ^b   Abdelmalak, Joseph ^b   MacHuzak, Michael S ^b   Gildea, Thomas R ^b   Doyle, D John ^b  

^a Anesthesiology Institute   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Dexmedetomidine; Mediastinal mass

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ISOFLURANE; LIDOCAINE; MIDAZOLAM; PACLITAXEL; PHENYLEPHRINE; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANTERIOR MEDIASTINAL MASS; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHUS DISEASE; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LASER SURGERY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECOVERY ROOM; RECURRENT CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK REDUCTION; SEDATION; STENT; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; TRACHEA CANCER; TRACHEA COMPRESSION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADULT; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78149360981     PISSN: 09138668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00540-010-0946-x     Document Type: Article

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