Sympathetic nervous system: Evaluation and importance for clinical general anesthesia

Anesthesiology

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1113-1131

  Neukirchen, Martin ^a   Kienbaum, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CLONIDINE; DESFLURANE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DIAZEPAM; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; FLUNITRAZEPAM; GANGLION BLOCKING AGENT; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; MIVAZEROL; NEUROHORMONE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NITROUS OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; OPIATE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; THIOPENTAL; XENON; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG MECHANISM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART RATE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPATHETIC TONE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 58149280756     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31818e435c     Document Type: Review

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