Nitroglycerin to facilitate fetal extraction during cesarean delivery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 119-124

  David, Matthias ^a   Halle, Horst ^b   Lichtenegger, Werner ^b   Sinha, Pranav ^b   Zimmermann, Thomas ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BRADYCARDIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS OUTCOME; HEADACHE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; UTERUS RELAXATION;

EID: 0031972960     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)00594-2     Document Type: Article

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