Effects of thoracic epidural anaesthesia on intestinal microvascular perfusion in a rodent model of normotensive endotoxaemia

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2094-2101

  Adolphs, Jörn ^a   Schmidt, Diego K ^a   Korsukewitz, Ines ^a   Kamin, Britta ^a   Habazettl, Helmut ^a,b   Schäfer, Michael ^a   Welte, Martin ^c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM DARMSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Blood flow; Intravital microscopy; Mucosa; Sepsis; Sympathetic blockade

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; URETHAN;

ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTOXEMIA; ERYTHROCYTE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; ILEUM MUCOSA; INTESTINE MUSCLE; INTESTINE PERFUSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; VELOCITY;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEPSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 11144302601     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-004-2426-y     Document Type: Article

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