The sitting position in neurosurgery: Indications, complications and results. A single institution experience of 600 cases

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 155, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1887-1893

  Ganslandt, Oliver ^a   Merkel, Andreas ^a   Schmitt, Hubert ^a   Tzabazis, Alexander ^a   Buchfelder, Michael ^a   Eyupoglu, Ilker ^a   Muenster, Tino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Posterior fossa surgery; Sitting position; Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE); Venous air embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OXYGEN TENSION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SITTING; SPINE DISEASE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884987128     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-013-1822-x     Document Type: Article

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