The effects of thoracic epidural analgesia with bupivacaine 0.25% on ventilatory mechanics in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1015-1019

  Gruber, Eva M ^a   Tschernko, Edda M ^a,c   Kritzinger, Meinhard ^a   Deviatko, Elena ^a   Wisser, Wilfried ^a   Zurakowski, David ^b   Haider, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BREATHING MUSCLE; BREATHING PATTERN; BRONCHUS TONE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG MECHANICS; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG RESISTANCE; MALE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 0035080056     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200104000-00039     Document Type: Article

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