Anaesthesia for peculiar cells - A century of sickle cell disease

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 287-299

  Firth, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Complications, acute chest syndrome; Complications, sickle cell disease; Pain, crisis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; BETA GLOBIN; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIHYDROMORPHINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FENTANYL; HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN S; HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BONE PAIN; BRONCHOSPASM; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEOXYGENATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORDERS OF ACID BASE BALANCE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ERYTHROCYTE ADHESIVENESS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEMODILUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; SIDE EFFECT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VEIN THROMBOSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANESTHESIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 24944460803     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aei129     Document Type: Review

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