Effect of flumazenil on ventilatory drive during sedation with midazolam and alfentanil

Anesthesiology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 713-720

  Gross, Jeffrey B ^b   Blouin, Robert T ^a   Zandsberg, Shaul ^a   Conard, Pattilyn F ^a   Haussler, Jürgen ^a  

^a Dept of Clinical Pharmacodynamics Hoffmann LaRoche ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia: conscious sedation; Antagonists, benzodiazepines: flumazenil; Complications, anoxia: chemically induced; physiopathology; Lungs, hypercapnia: pathophysiology; Lungs, respiration: drug effects; Pharmacology: alfentanil; flumazenil; midazolam

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FLUMAZENIL; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY DRIVE; SEDATION;

EID: 0029917433     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199610000-00005     Document Type: Article

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