Anesthetic Considerations for Robotic Surgery in the Steep Trendelenburg Position

Advances in Anesthesia

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-96

  Kalmar, Alain F ^a   De Wolf, Andre M ^b   Hendrickx, Jan F A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anesthesiology; Prostatectomy; Robotic surgery; Trendelenburg

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868711252     PISSN: 07376146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aan.2012.07.003     Document Type: Review

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