Forty Years On: The Anesthetic for the World's First Human-to-Human Heart Transplant Remembered

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-138

  Gordon, Peter Crichton ^a   Brink, Johan Givan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

anesthesia; heart transplantation; history

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BICARBONATE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CHLORPROPAMIDE; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; ISOPRENALINE; LIDOCAINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PREDNISONE; PROTAMINE SULFATE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; COMORBIDITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART GRAFT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OXYGENATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38749153920     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2007.10.019     Document Type: Review

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