Adenosine-induced cardiac arrest during intraoperative cerebral aneurysm rupture
, 12 October 2009
Teemu Luostarinen, Riikka S.K. Takala, Tomi T. Niemi, Ari J. Katila, Mika Niemelä, Juha Hernesniemi, Tarja Randell
World Neurosurgery
February 2010 (Vol. 73, Issue 2, Pages 79-83) Abstract |
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The administration of adenosine by an anesthesiologist to assist surgical efforts at controlling bleeding in the setting of ruptured intracranial aneurysms is not yet common in the clinical practice of anesthesiologists, at least in the United States. The experience of 16 cases presented here is particularly valuable in the context of the paucity of information available on safety and efficacy, and the likelihood that additional information will be slowly forthcoming.
Department of Anesthesiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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