Nitrous oxide: The passing of a gas?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-209

  Litman, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC GAS; COBALAMIN; DESFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANTINOCICEPTION; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONVULSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FIBROSARCOMA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; HYPOCAPNIA; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 3042788483     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-200406000-00002     Document Type: Editorial

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