Spinal cord motoneuron excitability during isoflurane and nitrous oxide anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 302-307

  Zhou, Henry H ^a   Mehta, Mahesh ^b   Arturo Leis, A ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anesthesia: mechanisms; Anesthetics, gases: nitrous oxide; Anesthetics, volatile: isoflurane; Electrophysiology; F wave; H reflex; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NITROUS OXIDE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0031051129     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199702000-00005     Document Type: Article

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