The anaesthesiologist in the intensive care unit

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 401-407

  Evans, Niall ^a   Skowno, Justin ^a   Hodgson, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Airway management; Anaesthesiologist; Intensive care unit; Procedures; Status asthmaticus; Status epilepticus; Vascular access

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; DESFLURANE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ETOMIDATE; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LORAZEPAM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; OPIATE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL; TOPIRAMATE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AIRWAY; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; ASTHMA; ASTHMATIC STATE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MYOPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS; VENTILATOR;

EID: 0042626251     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200308000-00006     Document Type: Review

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