Preliminary experience in the use of preoperative echo-guided left stellate Ganglion block in patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-84

  Garneau, Sbastien Y ^a   Deschamps, Alain ^a   Couture, Pierre ^a   Levesque, Sylvie ^a   Babin, Denis ^a   Lambert, Jean ^a   Tardif, Jean Claude ^a   Perrault, Louis P ^a   Denault, Andr Y ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

adrenergic system; cardiac anesthesia; pulmonary hypertension; stellate ganglion blockade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GANGLION BLOCK; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STELLATE GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ULTRASOUND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VASOCONSTRICTION; WEANING;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; BLOOD PRESSURE; BUPIVACAINE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY ARTERY; STELLATE GANGLION; TRICUSPID VALVE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 79251593531     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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