Adverse effects and drug interactions associated with local and regional anaesthesia

Drug Safety

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 221-250

  Naguib, Mohamed ^a   Magboul, Magboul M A ^a   Samarkandi, Abdulhamid H ^a   Attia, Mounir ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CHOLINESTERASE; DIGOXIN; ETIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PRILOCAINE; SULFONAMIDE; THIOPENTAL;

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CATHETER; CHOLINESTERASE BLOOD LEVEL; COMA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG HYDROLYSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; NEEDLE; NEUROTOXICITY; OXYGENATION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESTLESSNESS; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; CHOLINESTERASES; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0031976547     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002018-199818040-00001     Document Type: Article

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