Anesthesia during surgical repair for congenital heart disease and the developing brain: Neurotoxic or neuroprotective?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 554-559

  Wise Faberowski, Lisa ^a,c   Loepke, Andreas ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

anesthesia; brain; congenital heart disease; neuroprotective; neurotoxic

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ANESTHETIC AGENT; DIZOCILPINE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NARCOTIC AGENT; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ANOXIA; BRAIN; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES;

EID: 79954514094     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2011.03586.x     Document Type: Review

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