Variability of motor-evoked potentials recorded during nitrous oxide anesthesia from the tibialis anterior muscle after transcranial electrical stimulation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 744-749

  Woodforth, Ian J ^a   Hicks, Richard G ^b   Crawford, Matthew R ^a   Stephen, John P ^a   Burke, David J ^b,c  

^a SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PRINCE HENRY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; VECURONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NITROUS OXIDE; SCOLIOSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029927567     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199604000-00012     Document Type: Article

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