Cerebral autoregulation before and after blood transfusion in a child.
The authors present the case of an anemic 22-month-old child undergoing lower extremity surgery in whom the lower limit of cerebral autoregulation was shifted to the right.
Vavilala
M S
MS
Department of Anesthesiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA.
Lee
L A
LA
Morris
G P
GP
Lam
A M
AM
D000061:Accidents, Home; D000740:Anemia / Q000150:complications*; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D006400:Hematocrit; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D020768:Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D017585:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial