Dexmedetomidine: Another arrow for the clinician's quiver

Anesthesiology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 568-570

  Ebert, Thomas ^a   Maze, Mervyn ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; NORADRENALIN;

ANALGESIA; AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LOCUS CERULEUS; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SEDATION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

EID: 4344644560     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200409000-00003     Document Type: Editorial

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