Seizures After Adult Cardiac Surgery and Interventional Cardiac Procedures

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 2323-2329

  Pataraia, Ekaterina ^a   Jung, Rebekka ^a   Aull Watschinger, Susanne ^a   Skhirtladze Dworschak, Keso ^a   Dworschak, Martin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

anesthesia; cardiac surgery; outcome; seizures

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM BESILATE; ATROPINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HALOPERIDOL; INSULIN; LIDOCAINE; OPIATE; PROPRANOLOL; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THEOPHYLLINE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEIZURES;

EID: 85041607888     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: 15328422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2017.12.036     Document Type: Review

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