Venous air embolism during semi-sitting craniotomy evokes thrombocytopenia

Anaesthesia

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-30

  Schafer S T ^b   Sandalcioglu, I E ^a   Stegen, B ^b   Neumann, A ^b   Asgari, S ^b   Peters, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; SITTING; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CRANIOTOMY; EMBOLISM, AIR; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; POSTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 78650644932     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2010.06584.x     Document Type: Article

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