Mild sedation before transesophageal echo induces significant hemodynamic and respiratory depression

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 241-245

  Blondheim, David S ^a   Levi, Dalia ^a   Marmor, Alon T ^a  

^a Rebecca Sieff Government Hospital   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conscious sedation; Midazolam; Transesophageal echo

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG PREFERENCE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SEDATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDAZOLAM; MIDDLE AGED; PREMEDICATION; RESPIRATION;

EID: 1842627566     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03075.x     Document Type: Article

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