Acoustic monitoring of intraoperative neuromuscular block

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 405-409

  Dascalu, A ^a,b   Geller, E ^a,c   Moalem, Y ^b   Manoah, M ^b   Enav, S ^b   Rudick, Z ^a  

^a Ichilov Medical Center   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Equipment, microphone; Monitoring, neuromuscular block; Neuromuscular block, measurement of response

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROPHONE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MYOGRAPHY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOUND; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0032869520     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/83.3.405     Document Type: Article

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