Sympathectomy - a stress response attenuation

"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260

Sunday, June 22, 2008

sympathectomy induced relative hypovolemia

A Practical Approach to Cardiac Anesthesia (Practical Approach)
Frederick A Hensley, Donald E Martin, Glenn P Gravlee
page 43: Ephedrine
d) Advantages
(v) Nearly ideal to correct sympathectomy induced relative hypovolemia and decreased SVT after spinal or epidural anesthesia

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Forth Edition 2008

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