Effects of cafedrine/theodrenaline, etilefrine and ephedrine on uterine blood flow during epidural-induced hypotension in pregnant sheep

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 377-382

  Strumper D ^a   Gogarten, W ^a   Durieux, M E ^b   Hartleb, K ^a   Van Aken, H ^a   Marcus, M A E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hypotension; Uterine blood flow; Vasopressors

Indexed keywords

CAFEDRINE PLUS THEODRENALINE; EPHEDRINE; ETILEFRINE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOTENSION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SHEEP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TACHYCARDIA; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EPHEDRINE; ETILEFRINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HYPOTENSION; LIDOCAINE; OXYGEN; PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SHEEP; THEOPHYLLINE; UTERUS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 23944483963     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086816     Document Type: Article

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