Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery. Anesthetic Considerations

Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-206

  Koh, Jeffrey L ^a   Egan, Brian ^a   McGraw, Terrence ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Pediatric anesthesiology; Pediatric epilepsy; Seizures

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; DESFLURANE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ENFLURANE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; ETOMIDATE; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; LAMOTRIGINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OPIATE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PREGABALIN; PROPOFOL; RUFINAMIDE; SEVOFLURANE; THIOPENTAL; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VIGABATRIN; ZONISAMIDE;

AGITATION; ANEMIA; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANHIDROSIS; ANOREXIA; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATAXIA; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BLURRED VISION; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONFUSION; CONVULSION; CORPUS CALLOSOTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE CONTROL; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDEMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GASTROINTESTINAL IRRITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GINGIVA HYPERPLASIA; GLAUCOMA; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INCIDENCE; INCREASED APPETITE; INFANTILE SPASM; INSOMNIA; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; LETHARGY; LEUKOPENIA; LIBIDO; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NAUSEA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; NYSTAGMUS; ONSET AGE; OSTEOMALACIA; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; REVIEW; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOMNOLENCE; SPEECH DISORDER; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREMOR; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VERTIGO; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WEST SYNDROME;

ANESTHESIA; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEIZURES; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84865285889     PISSN: 19322275     EISSN: 22103538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anclin.2012.05.001     Document Type: Review

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