Xenon as a replacement for nitrous oxide?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 491-503

  Tonner, Peter H ^a,b   Bangert, Kathrin ^a,b   Scholz, Jens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nitrous oxide adverse effects; Nitrous oxide anaesthesia; Nitrous oxide analgesia; Xenon

Indexed keywords

DESFLURANE; ETHER; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; XENON;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COST; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FETOTOXICITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; TERATOGENICITY;

EID: 0035176504     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/bean.2001.0179     Document Type: Article

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