Implications for Postoperative visual loss: Steep trendelenburg position and effects on intraocular pressure

AANA Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-121

  Molloy, Bonnie Lee ^a  

^a Bridgeport Anesthesia Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraocular pressure; Ischemic optic neuropathy; Mean arterial pressure; Ocular perfusion pressure; Postoperative visual loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STEEP TRENDELENBURG; SUPINE POSITION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ANESTHETISTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VISION, LOW;

EID: 79954614892     PISSN: 00946354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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