The effects of general anesthesia on human skin microcirculation evaluated by wavelet transform

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1012-1019

  Landsverk, Svein Aslak ^a   Kvandal, Per ^a   Bernjak, Alan ^b   Stefanovska, Aneta ^b,c   Kirkeboen, Knut A ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NITROPRUSSIDE; RESPIRATION; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 34748824167     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000281932.09660.96     Document Type: Article

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