Neurological injury and anesthetic neurotoxicity following neonatal cardiac surgery: Does the head rule the heart or the heart rule the head?

Future Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 179-188

  Holtby, Helen M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

anesthetic toxicity; cardiac surgery; congenital heart disease; neonate; neurobehavioral outcome; neuroprotection; neurotoxicity; pediatric anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIAZEPAM; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; THIOPENTAL; XENON;

AGITATION; ATAXIA; BLINDNESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DELIRIUM; DISORIENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FETUS GROWTH; HALLUCINATION; HEART SURGERY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STROKE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84858689067     PISSN: 14796678     EISSN: 17448298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fca.11.92     Document Type: Review

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