Trimethaphan versus sodium nitroprusside for the control of proximal hypertension during thoracic aortic cross-clamping: The effects on spinal cord ischemia

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-74

  Simpson, Joseph I ^a   Eide, Thomas R ^a   Newman, Sheldon B ^a   Schiff, Gerald A ^a   Levine, David ^a   Bermudez, Rodney ^a   D'Ambra, Thomas ^a   Lebowitz, Philip ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; TRIMETAPHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; THORACIC AORTA;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DOGS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; NITROPRUSSIDE; OXYGEN; SPINAL CORD; TRIMETHAPHAN;

EID: 0030068751     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199601000-00012     Document Type: Article

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