Effect of thoracic epidural anesthesia on oxygen delivery and utilization in cardiac surgical patients scheduled to undergo off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: A prospective study

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 192-196

  Suryaprakash, Sharadaprasad ^a   Chakravarthy, Murali ^a   Gautam, Mamatha ^a   Gandhi, Anurag ^a   Jawali, Vivek ^a   Patil, Thimmannagowda ^a   Jayaprakash, Krishnamoorthy ^a   Pandey, Saurabh ^a   Muniraju, Geetha ^a  

^a Fortis Hospitals   (India)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; off pump coronary artery bypass surgery; oxygen; oxygen delivery; oxygen extraction; oxygen utilization; thoracic epidural anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DOPAMINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART INDEX; HEART RATE; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN EXTRACTION FRACTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80052472918     PISSN: 09719784     EISSN: 09745181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9784.83997     Document Type: Review

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