Modifying the baricity of local anesthetics for spinal anesthesia by temperature adjustment: Model calculations

Anesthesiology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 346-353

  Heller, Axel R ^a   Zimmermann, Katrin ^a   Seele, Kristin ^a   Rössel, Thomas ^a   Koch, Thea ^a   Litz, Rainer J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICAINE; BUCAIN; BUPIVACAINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEPIVACAINE; PRILOCAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DENSITY; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; HYPOBARISM; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

AIR PRESSURE; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33746603086     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200608000-00018     Document Type: Article

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