Nefopam, a Nonsedative Benzoxazocine Analgesic, Selectively Reduces the Shivering Threshold in Unanesthetized Subjects

Anesthesiology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-43

  Alfonsi, Pascal ^a   Adam, Frederic ^a   Passard, Andrea ^a   Guignard, Bruno ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^b   Chauvin, Marcel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^b Outcomes Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEFOPAM;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; MALE; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NEFOPAM; OXYGEN; SHIVERING; SWEATING; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0346102501     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200401000-00010     Document Type: Article

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