Open AccessAxillary brachial plexus blockade in moyamoya disease?
Author(s) -
Şaban Yalçın,
Hasan Çeçe,
Halil Nacar,
Mahmut Alp Karahan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.79897
Subject(s) - medicine , blockade , moyamoya disease , brachial plexus , perioperative , brachial plexus block , anesthesia , plexus , cardiology , surgery , receptor
Moyamoya disease is characterized by steno-occlusive changes of the intracranial internal carotid arteries. Cerebral blood flow and metabolism are strictly impaired. The goal in perioperative anaesthetic management is to preserve the stability between oxygen supply and demand in the brain. Peripheral nerve blockade allows excellent neurological status monitoring and maintains haemodynamic stability which is very important in this patient group. Herein, we present an axillary brachial plexus blockade in a moyamoya patient operated for radius fracture.