The Importance of Interrupting Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Treatment before Spinal Anaesthesia - A Controlled Case Report

Anaesthesiologie und Reanimation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 16-18

  Cozanitis, Dimitri A ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

ACE inhibitors; Antihypertensive drugs; Hypotension; Spinal anaesthesia

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; REOPERATION;

EID: 1442301562     PISSN: 03234983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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