Intra-operative bradycardia in a patient with Alzheimer's disease treated with two cholinesterase inhibitors [19]

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 201-

  Jones, Philip M ^a   Soderman, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; FENTANYL; GALANTAMINE; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; NEOSTIGMINE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROPOFOL; RIVASTIGMINE; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; AWARENESS; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LACRIMATION; LETTER; MAINTENANCE DRUG DOSE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SALIVATION; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRADYCARDIA; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33846201546     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.04970.x     Document Type: Letter

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