Aortic and radial pulse contour: Different effects of nitroglycerin and prostacyclin

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 566-572

  Söderström, Staffan ^a   Sellgren, Johan ^a   Pontén, Johan ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; PROSTACYCLIN;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EPOPROSTENOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITROGLYCERIN; PULSE; RADIAL ARTERY; STROKE VOLUME; THERMODILUTION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0345363120     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199909000-00005     Document Type: Article

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