1. Regional anesthesia in carotid surgery: technique and results
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Mark S. Gold, Anthony M. Imparato, Gary Giangola, Thomas S. Riles, Anthony A. Ramirez, Patrick J. Lamparello, Ronnie Landis, and Caron B. Rockman
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Vertebral artery ,Carotid endarterectomy ,Carotid surgery ,Surgery ,Regional anesthesia ,medicine.artery ,Anesthetic ,Medicine ,In patient ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
It seems almost anachronistic at the end of the 20th century, which has enjoyed the most remarkable advances in general anesthetic techniques permitting the most daring, complex and time-consuming operations to be successfully performed in patients at high risk for developing devastating complications, to be presenting an operative experience during which local and regional anesthesia were preferentially used and considered to be superior to general anesthesia. The circumstances which led to this conclusion are in part the subject of this report as well as the currently employed technique for achieving the regional anesthesia required for the performance of deliberate, unhurried and precise reconstructions of the carotid and vertebral arteries in the neck.
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- 1998
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