Acupuncture facilitates neuromuscular and oculomotor responses to skin incision with no influence on auditory evoked potentials under sevoflurane anaesthesia

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1073-1078

  Kvorning, Nina ^a   Christiansson, C ^a   Akeson J ^b  

^a HELSINGBORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Anaesthesia, inhalational; Auditory evoked potentials; Minimal alveolar concentration; Pain; Sevoflurane, surgery

Indexed keywords

SEVOFLURANE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN INCISION; STEADY STATE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYL ETHERS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SKIN; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0043238059     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2003.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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