Continuous thoracic epidural anesthesia induces segmental sympathetic block in the awake rat

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 255-262

  Freise, Hendrik ^a   Anthonsen, Sören ^a   Fischer, Lars G ^a   Van Aken, Hugo K ^a   Sielenkämper, Andreas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; WAKEFULNESS;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE BLOCK; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 10944259892     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000140253.65577.1C     Document Type: Article

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