Suppression of spinal cord motoneuron excitability correlates with surgical immobility during isoflurane anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 955-961

  Zhou, Henry H ^a   Jin, Tsen Tsen ^b   Qin, Binsheng ^b   Turndorf, Herman ^b  

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

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anesthesia mechanisms; Anesthetic potency; Electrophysiology; F wave; H reflex; Minimum alveolar concentration

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMOBILIZATION; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; MALE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0031896792     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199804000-00015     Document Type: Article

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