Body temperature change during anesthesia for electroconvulsive therapy: Implications for quality incentives in anesthesiology

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1618-1620

  Modell, Jerome H ^a,b   Gravenstein, Nikolaus ^a   Morey, Timothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESMOLOL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; LABETALOL; METHOHEXITAL; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; INFRARED THERMOMETER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECOVERY ROOM; TYMPANIC TEMPERATURE; TYMPANIC THERMOMETER; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BODY TEMPERATURE; EARDRUM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HYPOTHERMIA; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; THERMOMETER;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MOTIVATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; THERMOMETERS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 56149098721     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31817b7c35     Document Type: Article

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