The blood-gas partition coefficient of xenon may be lower than generally accepted

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 255-256

  Goto, T ^a   Suwa, K ^a   Uezono, S ^a   Ichinose, F ^a   Uchiyama, M ^b   Morita, S ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaesthetics gases, xenon; Solubility, partition coefficients

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0031894007     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/80.2.255     Document Type: Review

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