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Airway Emergencies After Neurosurgery

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Postoperative respiratory complications contribute to length of hospital stay, morbidity, and mortality. Hypoxemia and hypercapnia in neurosurgical patients have particularly grave consequences, such as cerebral vasodilatation, increases in ICP, and hypoxic brain damage.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Yulia Ivashkov MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

    Karen B. Domino MD, MPH

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Correspondence to Karen B. Domino MD, MPH .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, and Perioperative Medicine, Professor, University School of Medicine, Portland, 97214, Oregon, USA

    Ansgar M. Brambrink

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, and Perioperative Medicine, Professor and Chair, University School of Medicine, Portland, 97214, Oregon, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch

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Ivashkov, Y., Domino, K.B. (2012). Airway Emergencies After Neurosurgery. In: Brambrink, A., Kirsch, J. (eds) Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09562-2_67

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