Doxapram only slightly reduces the shivering threshold in healthy volunteers

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1368-1373

  Komatsu, Ryu ^a   Sengupta, Papiya ^a   Cherynak, Grigory ^b,c   Wadhwa, Anupama ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^a,b,d   Liu, Jin ^a,b   Hurst, Harrell E ^b   Lenhardt, Rainer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c Oklahoma Health Science Center   (United States)

^d Outcomes Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXAPRAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT; SEDATION; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 27444441274     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000180198.13467.DF     Document Type: Article

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