Incidence of epidural haematoma and neurological injury in cardiovascular patients with epidural analgesia/anaesthesia: systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Epidural anaesthesia is used extensively for cardiothoracic and vascular surgery in some centres, but not in others, with argument over the safety of the technique in patients who are usually extensively anticoagulated before, during, and after surgery. The principle concern is bleeding...

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Autores principales: Ruppen, Wilhelm, Derry, Sheena, McQuay, Henry J, Moore, R Andrew
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1586186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2253-6-10

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1586186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2253-6-10

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