Effects of inhaled nitrous oxide 50% on estimated cerebral perfusion pressure and zero flow pressure in healthy volunteers

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-132

  Hancock, Sally M ^a   Eastwood, J R ^a   Mahajan, R P ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; SEDATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASODILATATION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NITROUS OXIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 13544271961     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2004.04035.x     Document Type: Article

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