New circulating-water devices warm more quickly than forced-air in volunteers

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1681-1687

  Wadhwa, Anupama ^a,b   Komatsu, Ryu ^b   Orhan Sungur, Mukadder ^b   Barnes, Pamela ^c   In, Janghyeok ^b   Sessler, Daniel I ^d   Lenhardt, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLON MTRE 3365; BAIR HUGGER; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; PROPOFOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BISPECTRAL INDEX; CAPNOGRAPHY; CIRCULATING WATER DEVICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENERGY TRANSFER; FORCED AIR; HEART RATE; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHERMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WARMING;

EID: 36549028395     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000289534.65690.ce     Document Type: Article

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