The addition of phenylephrine contributes to the development of transient neurologic symptoms after spinal anesthesia with 0.5% tetracaine

Anesthesiology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 771-778

  Sakura, Shinicki ^b   Sumi, Manko ^c   Sakaguchi, Yasuko ^c   Saito, Yoji ^c   Kosaka, Yoshihiro ^c   Drasner, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anesthetic techniques, spinal; Catecholamines, phenylephrine; Complication, neurologic; Local anesthetics, tetracaine

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYZINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; TETRACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KNEE SURGERY; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OSMOLARITY; PERINEUM; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; UTERINE CERVIX CONIZATION; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENYLEPHRINE; SPINAL CORD; TETRACAINE;

EID: 0030682456     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199710000-00009     Document Type: Article

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