The use of nicardipine for electroconvulsive therapy: A dose-ranging study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 378-381

  Zhang, Yunan ^a   White, Paul F ^a   Thornton, Larry ^b   Perdue, Lisa ^b   Downing, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABETALOL; METHOHEXITAL; NICARDIPINE; SUXAMETHONIUM; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESCUE THERAPY; SEIZURE; TACHYCARDIA; THERAPY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LABETALOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NICARDIPINE; SEIZURES;

EID: 12844251300     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000144419.44481.59     Document Type: Article

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