Isoflurane produces marked and nonlinear decreases in the vasoconstriction and shivering thresholds

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 813, Issue , 1997, Pages 778-785

  Kurz, Andrea ^a   Xiong, Junyu ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^a   Plattner, Olga ^a   Christensen, Richard ^a   Dechert, Martha ^a   Ikeda, Takehiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0030993337     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51780.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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