Preoperative gabapentin: The effect on ropivacaine subarachnoid block and hemodynamics

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 334-338

  Fassoulaki, Argyro ^a   Chatziara, Vassiliki ^b   Melemeni, Aikaterini ^a   Zotou, Marianna ^b   Sarantopoulos, Constantine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; LIDOCAINE; PLACEBO; ROPIVACAINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; NERVE BLOCK; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AMIDES; AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAPILLOMA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 37549013352     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000295786.66822.60     Document Type: Article

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