Intraoperative hypothermia. Relation between general and regional anesthesia, upper- and lower-body warming: What strategies in pediatric anesthesia?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 821-823

  Galante, Dario ^a  

^a University Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CORE TEMPERATURE; EDITORIAL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT LOSS; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR SURGERY; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; WARMING;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; REWARMING; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 34547662418     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2007.02248.x     Document Type: Editorial

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