Intraoperative hypotension in neonates: When and how should we intervene?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 308-313

  Turner, Nigel McBeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

blood pressure; cardiac physiology; general anaesthesia; monitoring; neonate

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIST; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INOTROPISM; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISCHEMIA; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEWBORN SURGERY; NORMAL VALUE; ORGAN PERFUSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES;

ANESTHESIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84929999302     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000000196     Document Type: Review

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