Which Term Should Be Used for Local Infiltration Anesthesia for Carotid Endarterectomy? A Narrative Review

Anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy.

ee front matter & 2008 acc.2008.04.005 ing author. Tel.: +44 161 6 8027. ess: adam.pichel@cmm Summary Cerebrovascular disease is a major public health problem in the Western world. Carotid endarterectomy reduces the risk of stroke in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis, but itself is associated with appreciable morbidity and mortality. Careful patient selection is therefore necessary, an...

Cervical Epidural Anesthesia for Carotid Endarterectomy.

The objective of the work was to verify in common clinical practice the advantages and disadvantages of surgery of the carotid arteries under general or regional anaesthesia and the possibility of selective use of a carotid shunt. Epidural cervical block appears to be a useful alternative of general anaesthesia, for the patient as well as the surgeon. It makes it possible to select, if desired,...

Which treatment option should be used?

Which resources should be used to identify RCT/CCTs for systematic reviews: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Systematic reviewers seek to comprehensively search for relevant studies and summarize these to present the most valid estimate of intervention effectiveness. The more resources searched, the higher the yield, and thus time and costs required to conduct a systematic review. While there is an abundance of evidence to suggest how extensive a search for randomized controlled trials (RCT...

Carotid Endarterectomy under Regional Anesthesia

Regional anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy is a simple, reliable, and virtually complication-free technique. We began to perform a series of carotid endarterectomy under regional anesthesia at our institution in May 1990. This report describes our experience with 180 operated patients from May 1990 till December 1995, with regional anesthesia. All patients were operated with microsurgery an...