Do general anesthetics add up?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1120-1122

  Hemmings Jr , Hugh C ^a   Antognini, Joseph F ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE;

AMNESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; EDITORIAL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS; DRUG SYNERGISM; HUMANS; METHYL ETHERS; PROPOFOL; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 33744965527     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200606000-00003     Document Type: Editorial

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