Coronary artery spasm after ephedrine in a patient with high spinal anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 221-224

  Hirabayashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Saitoh, Kazuhiko ^b   Fukuda, Hirokazu ^b   Mitsuhata, Hiromasa ^b   Shimizu, Reiju ^b  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adrenergic agonist: ephedrine; Anesthetic techniques: spinal; Complication: coronary artery spasm

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATROPINE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DILTIAZEM; ENALAPRIL; EPHEDRINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; TETRACAINE;

AGED; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX PAIN; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; AGED; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VASOSPASM; EPHEDRINE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030046165     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199601000-00026     Document Type: Article

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