Complications and treatment of mild hypothermia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 531-543

  Sessler, Daniel I ^a,b,c  

^a Outcomes Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; FENTANYL; HALOTHANE; INFUSION FLUID; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; PROPOFOL; VECURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BURN; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN SURFACE; THERMOREGULATION; VASODILATATION; WARMING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0034894973     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200108000-00040     Document Type: Review

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