Seizures on emergence from sevoflurane anaesthesia for Caesarean section in a healthy parturient

Anaesthesia

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1234-1235

  Kuczkowski, K M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; SEVOFLURANE;

BRADYCARDIA; CESAREAN SECTION; ECLAMPSIA; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LETTER; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UMBILICAL HERNIA; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; CESAREAN SECTION; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYL ETHERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0036896378     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2002.02913_34.x     Document Type: Letter

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