Local application of volatile anesthetics attenuates the response to a mechanical stimulus in humans

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 951-957

  Fassoulaki, Argyro ^a,c   Skouteri, Ioanna ^a   Siafaka, Ioanna ^a   Sarantopoulos, Constantine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; SEVOFLURANE; WATER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 30344448572     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03022057     Document Type: Article

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