Has amobarbital expired? Considering the future of the Wada

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1692-1693

  Grote, Christopher L ^a   Meador, Kimford ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ETOMIDATE; HYDROCORTISONE; METHOHEXITAL; PROCAINE; PROPOFOL; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANESTHESIA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE TWITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; SPEECH; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; BRAIN CORTEX; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AMOBARBITAL; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645089241     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000192630.02278.99     Document Type: Editorial

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