The optimal test dose of epinephrine for epidural injection with lidocaine solution in awake patients premedicated with oral clonidine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1010-1014

  Ohata, Hiroto ^a   Lida, Hiroki ^a   Watanabe, Yukinaga ^a   Dohi, Shuji ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CLONIDINE; LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0031960599     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199805000-00019     Document Type: Article

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