Expansion of gas bubbles by nitrous oxide and xenon

Anesthesiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 299-302

  Benavides, Rodrigo ^b   Maze, Mervyn ^a   Franks, Nicholas P ^b,c  

^a Sir Ivan Magill Department of Anaesthetics   (Australia)

^b Department of Biophysics and Anaesthetics ^*

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; XENON; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AIR; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROBUBBLE; MICROSCOPY; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; GAS; KINETICS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; GASES; KINETICS; NITROUS OXIDE; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; XENON;

EID: 33644946275     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200602000-00015     Document Type: Article

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