Autonomic mechanisms in the age-related hypotensive effect of propofol

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-115

  Memtsoudis, Stavros G ^a,b   The, Andrew H S ^a   Heerdt, Paul M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEXAMETHONIUM; PROPOFOL;

AGE; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BOLUS INJECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GANGLION BLOCK; HEART CYCLE; HYPOTENSION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AGING; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GANGLIONIC BLOCKERS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HEXAMETHONIUM; PROPOFOL; RABBITS;

EID: 10944223457     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000140242.25232.41     Document Type: Article

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