Comparative incidence of cardiovascular changes during venous air embolism as detected by transesophageal echocardiography alone or in combination with end tidal carbon dioxide tension monitoring

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1206-1209

  Pandia, M P ^a   Bithal, P K ^a   Dash, H H ^a   Chaturvedi, A ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Capnography; Hemodynamic changes; Sitting position; Transesophageal echocardiography; Venous air embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SITTING; SKULL SURGERY; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN EMBOLISM;

ADULT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960985090     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2011.01.023     Document Type: Article

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