Epinephrine-induced tachycardia is different from contraction-associated tachycardia in laboring patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 294-296

  Colonna Romano, Pietro ^a   Salvage, Robert ^a   Lingaraju, Nagaraj ^a   Seitman, David T ^a  

^a HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SCREENING; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LABOR; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0030062881     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199602000-00013     Document Type: Article

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