From individual to population: The minimum alveolar concentration curve

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 390-396

  Dilger, James P ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration response; General anesthesia; Mechanisms of anesthesia; Minimum alveolar concentration; Steepness

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANESTHESIST; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; COVARIANCE; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; HUMANS; POPULATION; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33745906549     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aco.0000236138.31099.fc     Document Type: Review

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