Clinical effects and maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of 0.5% Epidural levobupivacaine versus bupivacaine for cesarean delivery

Anesthesiology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1596-1601

  Bader, Angela M ^a   Tsen, Lawrence C ^b   Camann, William R ^b   Nephew, Elizabeth ^b   Datta, Sanjay ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Local anesthetics; Obstetric anesthesia

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; BUPIVACAINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERNAL PLASMA; NAUSEA; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BUPIVACAINE; CESAREAN SECTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0032983947     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199906000-00015     Document Type: Article

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