Systemically administered α2-agonist-induced peripheral vasoconstriction in humans

Anesthesiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-70

  Talke, Pekka ^a   Lobo, Errol ^b   Brown, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ADULT; ALPHA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FINGER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; VASOCONSTRICTION; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHEMICAL SYMPATHECTOMY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HEMOGLOBINOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0038449949     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200307000-00014     Document Type: Article

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