The costs of intense neuromuscular block for anesthesia during endolaryngeal procedures due to waiting time

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1335-1339

  Puura, Arto I E ^a,c   Rorarius, Michael G F ^b   Manninen, Pia ^a   Hopput, Sanna ^a   Baer, Gerhard A ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; MIVACURIUM; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; VECURONIUM;

ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX SURGERY; MALE; MICROLARYNGOSCOPY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0033034702     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199906000-00026     Document Type: Article

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