Anaesthesia and the elderly

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 679-684

  Sielenkämper, Andreas W ^a   Booke, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL STRESS; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

EID: 0035195829     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200112000-00014     Document Type: Review

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