Is there a place for desflurane in paediatric anaesthesia?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 663-664

  Murat, I ^a  

^a ARMAND TROUSSEAU HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DESFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AGITATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; APNEA; BREATH HOLDING; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COST; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DRUG UPTAKE; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HERNIOTOMY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LARYNX SPASM; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG RESISTANCE; MASK; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYLORUS STENOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SECRETION; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VAPORIZER; CHILD; ECONOMICS; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; ISOFLURANE;

EID: 0036460716     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00794.x     Document Type: Editorial

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