Anesthetic neurotoxicity in newborns: Should we change clinical practice?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-4

  Anand, Kanwaljeet J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANESTHESIA; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANESTHETICS; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KETAMINE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34250877783     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.anes.0000268484.05444.35     Document Type: Editorial

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