Safety analysis of vagal nerve stimulation for continuous nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1979-1987

  Friedrich, Colin ^a,b   Ulmer, Christoph ^a   Rieber, Fabian ^a,b   Kern, Eva ^a   Kohler, Andrea ^a   Schymik, Karolina ^a   Thon, Klaus Peter ^a   Lamadé, Wolfram ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b DR MARGARETE FISCHER BOSCH INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

continuous intraoperative neuromonitoring; Head and neck surgery; heart rate variability analysis; immunomodulation; recurrent laryngeal nerve; thyroid surgery; vagal nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROMONITORING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; GOITER; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; NEUROMONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SAFETY; THYROID SURGERY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS TONE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865662401     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23411     Document Type: Article

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