Large-dose propofol alone in adult epileptic patients: Electrocorticographic results

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 169-174

  Cheng, Mary Ann ^a   Tempelhoff, René ^a   Silbergeld, Daniel L ^a   Angele Theard, M ^a   Haines, Seline K ^a   Miller, John W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROPOFOL;

EID: 0029946698     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199607000-00029     Document Type: Article

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