Epidural analgesia in sepsis: Too early to judge a new concept

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1987-1989

  Sielenkämper, Andreas W ^a   Van Aken, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; ENDOTOXIN; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORPHINE;

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIST; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; ENTEROPATHY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINES; MICROCIRCULATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RATS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEPSIS;

EID: 11144253552     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-004-2447-6     Document Type: Editorial

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