A randomized double-blinded comparison of phenylephrine and ephedrine infusion combinations to maintain blood pressure during spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery: The effects on fetal acid-base status and hemodynamic control

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1295-1302

  Ngan Kee, Warwick D ^a,b   Lee, Anna ^a   Khaw, Kim S ^a   Ng, Floria F ^a   Karmakar, Manoj K ^a   Gin, Tony ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; PHENYLEPHRINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRADYCARDIA; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE; FETUS ACID BASE BALANCE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NAUSEA; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VOMITING; ACID BASE BALANCE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREGNANCY;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ADULT; ANESTHESIA, OBSTETRICAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CESAREAN SECTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPHEDRINE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; OXYGEN; PHENYLEPHRINE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREGNANCY; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 53449091795     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818065bc     Document Type: Article

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