Early use of small-dose vasopressin for unstable hemodynamics in an acute brain injury patient refractory to catecholamine treatment: A case report

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 577-579

  Yeh, Chun Chang ^a   Wu, Ching Tang ^a   Lu, Chueng He ^a   Yang, Chih Ping ^a   Wong, Chih Shung ^a  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; DESFLURANE; DOPAMINE; FENTANYL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NORADRENALIN; ROCURONIUM; THIOPENTAL; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 0041346094     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000070231.16378.A6     Document Type: Article

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