Analgesic and hemodynamic effects of intrathecal clonidine as the sole analgesic agent during first stage of labor: A dose-response study

Anesthesiology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 388-396

  Chiari, Astrid ^b   Lorber, Christine ^c   Eisenach, James C ^a   Wildling, Eckart ^c   Krenn, Claus ^c   Zavrsky, Ana ^c   Kainz, Christian ^c   Germann, Peter ^c   Klimscha, Walter ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adrenergic agonist; Obstetric; Pain; Spinal injection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CLONIDINE; EPHEDRINE;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG POTENCY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; CLONIDINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032839128     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199908000-00012     Document Type: Article

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