Tracheal intubation using alfentanil and no muscle relaxant: Is the choice of hypnotic important?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1222-1226

  Stevens, James B ^a,b   Vescovo, M Valerie ^b   Harris, Kenneth C ^a   Walker, Steven C ^a   Hickey, Rosemary ^b  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; LIDOCAINE; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHODILATATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION;

ADULT; ALFENTANIL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ETOMIDATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL; TUBOCURARINE;

EID: 0030998243     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199706000-00009     Document Type: Article

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