Sedation with promethazine profoundly affects spontaneous airway protection in sleeping neonatal piglets

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 920-926

  McKelvey, George M ^a   Post, Elizabeth J ^a   Jeffery, Heather E ^a,b   Wood, Andrew K W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent life threatening events; Arousal; Gastro oesophageal reflux; Phenothiazines; Sleep apnoea; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; Swallowing

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; PROMETHAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APNEA; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEDATION; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP TIME; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SWALLOWING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRONCHI; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEGLUTITION; HEART; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; PROMETHAZINE; RESPIRATION; SLEEP; SWINE;

EID: 0032722703     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.1999.03159.x     Document Type: Article

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