Evaluating T-wave amplitude as a guide for detecting intravascular injection of a test dose in anesthetized children

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 754-758

  Tanaka, Makoto ^a   Nishikawa, Toshiaki ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATROPINE; LIDOCAINE; NITRIC OXIDE; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; MINOR SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; T WAVE;

EID: 0032920166     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199904000-00013     Document Type: Article

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