Anesthetic Management of a Patient with Methemoglobinemia

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 504-509

  Groeper, Kelly ^a   Katcher, Kelly ^a   Tobias, Joseph D ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETANILIDE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZOCAINE; CHLOROQUINE; CISATRACURIUM; CYTOCHROME B5 REDUCTASE; DAPSONE; FENTANYL; HEMOGLOBIN M; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHEMOGLOBIN; METHYLENE BLUE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROFURANTOIN; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PARACETAMOL; PHENACETIN; PHENAZOPYRIDINE; PHENYLHYDRAZINE; PHENYTOIN; PRILOCAINE; PRIMAQUINE; PROCAINE; PROPOFOL; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; UNINDEXED DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PULSE OXIMETRY; SARCOIDOSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANESTHESIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE CARE; SHOULDER;

ANESTHESIA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHROSCOPY; DAPSONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; SHOULDER;

EID: 0042968788     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000051342.99317.99     Document Type: Article

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