Clinical pharmacokinetics of sevoflurane

Clinical Pharmacokinetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-26

  Behne, Michael ^a   Wilke, Hans Joachim ^a   Harder, Sebastian ^b  

^a Klin der Johann Wolfgang G   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Klinische Pharmakologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG METABOLITE; FLUORIDE; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; DRUG UPTAKE; FACE MASK; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LUNG ALVEOLUS; NEPHROTOXICITY; OBESITY; ODOR; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANIMALS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; METHYL ETHERS; OBESITY;

EID: 0032949133     PISSN: 03125963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003088-199936010-00002     Document Type: Review

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