The timing of acupuncture stimulation does not influence anesthetic requirement

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 387-392

  Chernyak, Grigory ^a   Sengupta, Papiya ^b   Lenhardt, Rainer ^a,b   Liem, Edwin ^a,b   Doufas, Anthony G ^a,b   Sessler, Daniel I ^a,b,c   Akça, Ozan ^a,b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c Outcomes Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DESFLURANE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NEEDLE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12844262852     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000142114.72117.E0     Document Type: Article

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