The placental transfer and fetal effects of levobupivacaine, racemic bupivacaine, and ropivacaine

Anesthesiology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1698-1703

  Santos, Alan C ^b   Karpel, Barry ^a   Noble, George ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Jack D Weiler Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Local anesthetics; Placental transfer; Pregnancy; Uterine blood flow

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS MEMBRANE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; WELLBEING;

AMIDES; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BUPIVACAINE; FEMALE; FETUS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHEEP; STEREOISOMERISM; UTERUS;

EID: 0033026225     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199906000-00027     Document Type: Article

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