A Novel Method for Determining the Blood/Gas Partition Coefficients of Inhalation Anesthetics to Calculate the Percentage of Loss at Different Temperatures

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 122-127

  Yang, N C ^a   Wang, H F ^a   Hwang, K L ^b   Ho, W M ^a,c  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESFLURANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; SEVOFLURANE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; GAS; LIQUID; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VACUUM;

EID: 1542532134     PISSN: 01464760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jat/28.2.122     Document Type: Article

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