Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Which is the best anesthetic agent?

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1007-1008

  Driessen, Jacques ^a   Snoeck, Marc ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL; SUFENTANIL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG CHOICE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; CHILD; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SUCCINYLCHOLINE;

EID: 51349122027     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02575.x     Document Type: Letter

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