Con: Patients at Risk for Spinal Cord Ischemia After Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repairs Should Not Receive Prophylactic Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2015 Oct;29(5):1381-3. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2015.05.191. Epub 2015 May 22.

Authors

Robert S Isaak¹, William Furman²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Liver Transplant Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC. Electronic address: risaak@aims.unc.edu.
² Division of Multispecialty Adult Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.

PMID: 26384636
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2015.05.191

No abstract available

Keywords: cerebrospinal fluid drain; lumbar drains; spinal cord injury; thoracic endovascular aortic repair; thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / surgery*
Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / adverse effects*
Cerebrospinal Fluid
Contraindications
Drainage*
Endovascular Procedures / adverse effects*
Humans
Postoperative Complications / etiology
Postoperative Complications / prevention & control*
Spinal Cord Ischemia / etiology
Spinal Cord Ischemia / prevention & control*