Regional anesthetic procedures in immunosuppressed patients: Risk of infection

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 698-704

  Gronwald, Carsten ^a   Vowinkel, Thorsten ^a   Hahnenkamp, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; infection; regional anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; EVEROLIMUS; GLUCOCORTICOID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADDISON DISEASE; ANEMIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ASTHMA; CATHETER INFECTION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CROHN DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENTERITIS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL CATHETER; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG INFECTION; MEDIASTINITIS; MENINGITIS; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SKIN ABSCESS; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS INFECTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK;

EID: 81855182092     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32834cd2f0     Document Type: Review

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