Isoflurane produces marked and nonlinear decreases in the vasoconstriction and shivering thresholds

Anesthesiology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 240-245

  Xiong, Junyu ^a   Kurz, Andrea ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^a,b   Plattner, Olga ^a   Christensen, Richard ^a   Dechert, Martha ^a   Ikeda, Takehiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anesthetics: volatile, isoflurane; Thermoregulation: shivering; temperature; vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; DESFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIVERING; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0029840690     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199608000-00003     Document Type: Article

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