The trigemino-cardiac reflex is a well-known clinical phenomenon described during different craniofacial or skull base surgery as well as neuroradiological interventions and defined as the sudden onset of parasympathetic dysrhythmia, sympathetic hypotension, apnea, or gastric hyper-motility during (intraoperative) stimulation of any of the sensory branches of the trigeminal nerve. According to ...
