Cardiac arrest during desflurane anaesthesia in a patient with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy [2]

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 267-269

  Smelt, W L H ^a  

^a Isala Klinieken ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; CAPTOPRIL; DESFLURANE; DIGOXIN; ENALAPRIL; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LETTER; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; SPONDYLODESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EPINEPHRINE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 14644440538     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2004.00595.x     Document Type: Letter

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