Effects of sympathetic blockade on the efficiency of forced-air warming during combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for total hip arthroplasty

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 360-363

  Casati, Andrea ^a   Baroncini, Simonetta ^b   Pattono, Roberto ^c   Fanelli, Guido ^a   Bonarelli, Stefano ^b   Musto, Paolo ^c   Berti, Marco ^a   Torri, Giorgio ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Equipment and supplies; Hypothermia; Monitoring; Regional; Spinal; Temperature; Warming devices

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BUPIVACAINE; DIAZEPAM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOVERY ROOM; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BODY TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0032848478     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-8180(99)00062-8     Document Type: Article

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