Cardiac Arrest during Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery

Abstract

  Trigemino-Cardiac-Reflex (TCR), which is not well known, occurs during stimulation of the sensory nerve of the trigeminal nerve mostly in head and neck surgery. This is a case report in which cardiac arrest occurred during endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery due to TCR, and we investigated the risk of TCR during surgery in the literature.