The acute and residual effects of subanesthetic concentrations of isoflurane/nitrous oxide combinations on cognitive and psychomotor performance in healthy volunteers

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 153-157

  Zacny, James P ^a   Yajnik, Santosh ^a   Lance Lichtor, J ^a   Klafta, Jerome M ^a   Young, Christopher J ^a   Thapar, Pankaj ^a   Rupani, Gita ^a   Coalson, Dennis W ^a   Apfelbaum, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; NITROUS OXIDE; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0030027406     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199601000-00028     Document Type: Article

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