Spinal anaesthesia at low and moderately high altitudes: a comparison of anaesthetic parameters and hemodynamic changes


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Aksoy M., İnce İ., Ahıskalıoğlu A., Karaca O., Bayar F., Erdem A. F.

BMC ANESTHESIOLOGY, cilt.15, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

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Background: Hypoxemia caused high altitude leads to an increase and variability in CSF volume. The purpose of this prospective study was to detect the differences, if any, between moderately highlanders and lowlanders in terms of anaesthetic parameters under neuroaxial anaesthesia.